Derek Winnert

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage *** (1986, Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang, Polly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 9,625

The 1986 TV movie Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fifth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s first novel to feature Miss […]

Apr, 10 · in Reviews

The Spiral Road * (1962, Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands) – Classic Movie Review 9624

Director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 ambitious and well-intentioned failure The Spiral Road is based on Jan de Hartog’s novel and stars Rock Hudson as a mid-1930s stop-at-nothing doctor in trouble, bent on using Dr Brits Jansen […]

Apr, 10 · in Reviews

The Spiral Staircase * (1975, Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Mildred Dunnock, Gayle Hunnicutt, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 9,623

The 1975 British horror mystery thriller film The Spiral Staircase is a close but modernised and unhappy remake of the 1946 classic American chiller. Director Peter Collinson’s 1975 British horror mystery thriller The Spiral Staircase […]

Apr, 09

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye *** (1985, Joan Hickson, Timothy West, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 9,622

The 1985 TV movie Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fourth case as the BBC’s detective Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie.  Director Guy […]

Apr, 09

Lady Killer *** (1933, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 9621

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white crime comedy Lady Killer stars James Cagney as gangster Dan Quigley, who is on the run from the law but he washes up in the […]

Apr, 09

Lady Jane ** (1986, Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern, Jill Bennett, Jane Lapotaire, Sara Kestelman, Joss Ackland, Patrick Stewart, Richard Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 9,620

Trevor Nunn’s 1986 film Lady Jane is a pretty historical drama about the 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter). The fine cast includes Cary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hordern, Jill Bennett, Jane Lapotaire, Joss […]

Apr, 09

The Lady Is Willing *** (1942, Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges, Arline Judge) – Classic Movie Review 9619

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1942 The Lady Is Willing is a frothy, mostly appealing, Forties-period romantic comedy in which an eccentric Broadway showgirl, Elizabeth Madden (the incomparable Marlene Dietrich effectively cast against type), is so desperate […]

Apr, 08

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