Derek Winnert

Mad About Men ** (1954, Glynis Johns, Donald Sinden, Anne Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 9367

Director Ralph Thomas’s amiable 1954 Technicolor fantasy comedy Mad about Men again stars Glynis Johns, who revisits her mermaid tale for this sequel to 1948’s hit Miranda, in which flirty mermaid Miranda and stuffy gymnastics teacher […]

Feb, 11 · in Reviews

Miranda *** (1948, Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum, Margaret Rutherford, David Tomlinson) – Classic Movie Review 9,366

Director Ken Annakin’s 1947 British black and white light comedy fantasy film Miranda stars Glynis Johns, who makes a very fetching mermaid called Miranda Trewella, who talks young married physician Dr Paul Martin (Griffith Jones), […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

Mad About Music *** (1938, Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 9365

Director Norman Taurog’s 1938 Mad about Music stars Deanna Durbin as Gloria Harkinson, the sweet young girl who enlists a visiting nice chap English composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) to play her pop when she is left […]

Feb, 10

Parasite [Gisaengchung] **** (2019, Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park, Ji-so Jung) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]

Feb, 10

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies *** (1960, Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige) – Classic Movie Review 9364

Director Charles Walters’s pleasing 1960 MGM Metrocolor comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies pleasantly and profitably pairs Doris Day with David Niven. Jean Kerr’s bestselling book about her life with theatre critic Walter Kerr, who […]

Feb, 09

Please Believe Me ** (1950, Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9363

Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]

Feb, 09

My Son John * (1952, Robert Walker, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 9362

Producer-director Leo McCarey’s 1952 drama My Son John is one of the most glaring examples of 50s Hollywood’s rabid anti-communist attitudes with John Jefferson (Robert Walker) ostracised by his all-American family when he returns home […]

Feb, 09

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