Derek Winnert

Love Happy *** (1949, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Eric Blore, Ilona Massey, Marilyn Monroe, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 9636

Harpo Marx takes centre stage for the Marx Brothers’ final movie together about mounting a Broadway show and foiling jewel thieves, in director David Miller’s 1949 black and white wisecracking comedy Love Happy [Kleptomaniacs]. Alas, there […]

Apr, 14 · in Reviews

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington **** (1987, Joan Hickson, Maurice Denham, Joanna David, Mona Bruce, Jean Boht, Juliette Mole, David Beames) – Classic Movie Review 9635

The agreeable 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington stars Joan Hickson in her ninth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s novel. Miss Marple’s friend Mrs McGillicuddy sees a murder […]

Apr, 14 · in Reviews

Lady Sings the Blues **** (1972, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 9,634

Director Sidney J Furie’s 1972 musical drama film Lady Sings the Blues is Diana Ross’s finest hour in the movies, acting her socks off as the great but tragic blues singer Billie Holiday. The film’s […]

Apr, 13

Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] *** (1937, Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton, Jean Cadell) – Classic Movie Review 9633

Director Rowland V Lee’s 1937 thriller Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] is the original, and far better, British version of Agatha Christie’s short story Philomel Cottage, before an American remake ten years […]

Apr, 13

Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) – Classic Movie Review 9,632

The inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who investigates her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it […]

Apr, 13

The 12 Miss Marple novels and Joan Hickson films: ‘I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple.’

The 12 Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels and Joan Hickson film versions. Mrs Christie wrote to her in the 1940s: ‘I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple.’ The 12 Agatha Christie […]

Apr, 12

Borderline *** (1980, Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Bert Remsen, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 9631

‘Somewhere along a thousand miles of barbed wire border the American dream has become a nightmare.’ There is plenty of tough action in director Jerrold Freedman’s good-enough 1980 crime thriller Borderline, with Charles Bronson as […]

Apr, 12

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