Derek Winnert

The Girl in the Picture *** (1985, John Gordon Sinclair, Irina Brook, Gregor Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 9338

Writer-director Cary Parker’s sweet, appealing and amusing though essentially lightweight 1985 British romantic comedy The Girl in the Picture stars John Gordon Sinclair (from Gregory’s Girl) as a Glasgow photographer called Alan, who tries to […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

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

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

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