Derek Winnert

Girl in the News *** (1940, Margaret Lockwood, Barry K Barnes, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9337

Margaret Lockwood completes a trio of films in a row for director Carol Reed as Ann Graham, a nurse wrongly accused of poisoning her wheelchair-using patient Edward Bentley (Wyndham Goldie), in the enjoyable, if routinely […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

A Girl Must Live *** (1939, Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9336

After Bank Holiday (1938), director Carol Reed asked Margaret Lockwood back to star in his 1939 film A Girl Must Live, a romantic comedy about gold-digging showgirls romantically entangled with a rich lord. Young Earl of […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

Daylight Robbery *** (1964, Darryl Read, Kirk Martin, Janet Hannington, Trudy Moors) – Classic Movie Review 9335

Director Michael Truman’s 1964 enthusiastic Children’s Film Foundation short feature Daylight Robbery is all about kids and robbers again. This time they get locked in a store, eventually stopping the raiders tunnelling through the store’s […]

Feb, 02

Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] *** (1963, Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Jeremy Brett, Jane Asher) – Classic Movie Review 9334

Who killed Ursula Gray? Director Michael Truman’s 1963 British noir mystery thriller Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] stars Ian Hendry and Ronald Fraser, who make an appealing pair of investigators as Inspector […]

Feb, 02

The Old Fashioned Way **** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Joe Morrison, Judith Allen, Nora Cecil) – Classic Movie Review 9333

Director William Beaudine’s agreeably raucous and extremely funny 1934 W C Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way sees the star at his grouchiest as The Great McGonigle, the blustery actor-manager head of a group of […]

Feb, 01

The Great McGonagall ** (1975, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9332

Director Joe McGrath’s 1974 comedy The Great McGonagall stars Spike Milligan as the obscure and terrible unemployed 19th-century Scottish poet William McGonagall, married to Mrs McGonagall (Julia Foster), and determined to become Queen Victoria’s poet […]

Feb, 01

Percy’s Progress (1974, Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Vincent Price, Judy Geeson, Harry H Corbett, Adrienne Posta, Julie Ege, Barry Humphries) – Classic Movie Review 9,331

Percy’s Progress. eh? Alas, the progress is all downhill, even from the level of the 1971 film Percy. In the same director Ralph Thomas’s trashy 1974 UK sex comedy sequel film, Percy’s Progress, the hero […]

Feb, 01

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