Derek Winnert

Just My Luck ** (1957, Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9560

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1957 British comedy Just My Luck finds Norman Wisdom re-united with Margaret Rutherford, the co-star of his 1953 debut film Trouble in Store. Just our luck to have Wisdom as Norman […]

Mar, 25 · in Reviews

Magic Town **** (1947, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 9559

Director William A Wellman’s 1947 comedy Magic Town is an underrated pleasure. It describes the politician’s dream – a Magic Town that is a perfect mirror of American opinions. James Stewart stars as opinion pollster […]

Mar, 25 · in Reviews

The Riddle of the Sands *** (1979, Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel) – Classic Movie Review 9558

Director Tony Maylam’s attractive 1978 adventure The Riddle of the Sands is deliberately old fashioned, with stiff-upper-lip performances, a handsome, well-crafted production and that convincing period atmosphere that the British do so well. The 1903 […]

Mar, 25

Riders to the Stars ** (1954, William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Dawn Addams, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9557

‘SEE! men and equipment float in air, trapped where there is no gravity – no up or down!’ A scientist sends a three-man team into space to retrieve an asteroid, in this entertainingly bizarre, ‘realistic’ […]

Mar, 24

Gog *** (1954, Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 9556

‘Built to serve man… it could think a thousand times faster! move a thousand times faster! kill a thousand times faster…Then suddenly it became a Frankenstein of steel!’ Producer Ivan Tors provides the story for […]

Mar, 24

The Magnetic Monster *** (1953, Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron) – Classic Movie Review 9555

‘This one man stands between the earth and DOOM!’ Beware the terrors of the magnetic monster, accidentally caused by a radioactive isotope developed by a scientist, Howard Denker (Leonard Mudie), now dying of radiation poisoning. […]

Mar, 24

Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé [A Man Escaped] ***** (1956, François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock) – Classic Movie Review 9554

Director Robert Bresson’s 1956 French film Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où il Veut [A Man Escaped] is the brilliantly made, stark, true story of a captured French Resistance fighter, […]

Mar, 24

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