Derek Winnert

The First of the Few [Spitfire] **** (1942, Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 9384

Lots of exciting aerial sequences, a good dash of sentiment and an appropriately stiff-lipped script help to make Leslie Howard’s 1942 black and white wartime tribute The First of the Few [Spitfire] a thoroughly affecting […]

Feb, 14 · in Reviews

Forever and a Day **** (1943, Claude Rains, C Aubrey Smith, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessie Matthews, Charles Laughton, Roland Young, Gladys Cooper, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 9383

’78 stars in one Great Picture!’ Europeans in Hollywood gave their services free for RKO Radio Pictures’s black and white drama 1943 Forever and a Day about a London house from 1804 to the Blitz […]

Feb, 14 · in Reviews

The Pleasure of His Company *** (1961, Fred Astaire, Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 9382

Director George Seaton’s fairly civilised and sophisticated 1961 comedy The Pleasure of His Company stars Fred Astaire as debonair, man-about-town Biddeford ‘Pogo’ Poole, who comes home for the marriage of his long neglected daughter, San […]

Feb, 14

Sea of Sand [Desert Patrol] **** (1958, Richard Attenborough, John Gregson, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 9381

Director Guy Green’s 1958 British war film Sea of Sand [Desert Patrol] is better than average war fare, using the sandy wastes of North Africa as an endless backdrop for a tale set during the North African […]

Feb, 14

Operation Bikini * (1963, Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady) – Classic Movie Review 9380

‘TEMPTATION in PARADISE… Neither hell nor high heels could stop them!’ Debut director Anthony Carras’s 1963 World War Two war film Operation Bikini [The Seafighter] stars Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon and Scott Brady, and is […]

Feb, 14

The Mind Benders ** (1963, Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig) – Classic Movie Review 9,379

Basil Dearden’s 1963 British thriller The Mind Benders is an ambitious, intelligent film with a fascinating theme. It enjoys quality acting, particularly by Dirk Bogarde. Director Basil Dearden’s 1963 British thriller film The Mind Benders is written […]

Feb, 14

Footsteps in the Fog *** (1955, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 British noir Footsteps in the Fog is a solid Fifties British-made, Hitchcockian Suspicion-style thriller, with stylish acting from the then real-life husband-and-wife team Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons as the wife […]

Feb, 13

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