Derek Winnert

The Halliday Brand *** (1957, Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 9604

‘Their violence seared the West like a branding iron!’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1956 The Halliday Brand is a rousing flashback Western making the most of a somewhat clichéd script about a rancher father, Big […]

Apr, 06 · in Reviews

Hallelujah I’m a Bum **** (1933, Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon) – Classic Movie Review 9603

‘BUCK UP! LOOK UP! CHEER UP!… SING!’ Director Lewis Milestone’s 1933 Hallelujah I’m a Bum had to be urgently retitled Hallelujah I’m a Tramp in the UK, where it was released in a version where […]

Apr, 06 · in Reviews

Hamlet ***** (1964, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina) – Classic Movie Review 9602

Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]

Apr, 05

Hamlet **** (1969, Nicol Williamson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Marianne Faithfull, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 9,601

Tony Richardson shoots his 1969 film Hamlet during the run of his acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare’s play at London’s Roundhouse Theatre, using the sets and cast from the production. Director Tony Richardson shoots his […]

Apr, 05

Hamlet Goes Business **** (1987, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo) – Classic Movie Review 9600

Writer/ producer/ director Aki Kaurismäki’s 1987 Finnish black comedy film Hamlet Goes Business [Hamlet Liikemaailmassa] is an entertaining, irreverent black-and-white satirical film noir reading of the Bard. Cult director Kaurismäki’s highly personal telling of the […]

Apr, 05

Valley of the Zombies ** (1946, Robert Livingston, Lorna Gray, Ian Keith, Thomas E Jackson, Charles Trowbridge) – Classic Movie Review 9599

‘BLOOD MADNESS… Out Of The Fog… Into Your Heart!’ Don’t look for a valley or zombies or thrills in director Philip Ford’s amusingly laughable 1946 Republic Pictures quickie horror chiller Valley of the Zombies about […]

Apr, 05

Les Valseuses [Going Places] **** (1974, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey) – Classic Movie Review 9,598

Director Bertrand Blier’s 1974 Les Valseuses [Going Places], with its tale of two young juvenile delinquents, Jean-Claude and Pierrot (Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere), who abduct hairdresser Marie-Ange (Miou-Miou) and take to the road in an […]

Apr, 05

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