Derek Winnert

The Smashing Bird I Used to Know ** (1969, Madeleine Hinde, Renée Asherson, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Derek Fowlds) – Classic Movie Review 9275

‘One step up from the gutter and one kiss away from jail!’ Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1969 drama The Smashing Bird I Used to Know [School for Unclaimed Girls] stars Madeleine Hinde [Madeline Hinde] as Nicki […]

Jan, 17 · in Reviews

We Joined the Navy * (1962, Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Mischa Auer, Derek Fowlds, Joan O’Brien, Denise Warren) – Classic Movie Review 9274

Kenneth More, Jeremy Lloyd, Dinsdale Landen and Derek Fowlds play four sailors who embroil themselves in political nonsense in the Mediterranean in director Wendy Toye’s soggy 1962 comedy We Joined the Navy, which is very […]

Jan, 17 · in Reviews

East of Sudan ** (1964, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter, Johnny Sekka) – Classic Movie Review 9273

Producer-director Nathan Juran’s 1964 East of Sudan is a simple, familiar, good-looking colonial adventure movie, with stalwart performances from Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter and Johnny Sekka, who help to make it […]

Jan, 17

Where the Heart Is *** (2000, Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno) – Classic Movie Review 9272

Director Matt Williams’s tastily offbeat 2000 comedy Where the Heart Is stars Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teenager, quarrelling with her mom (Sally Field) and then abandoned by her boyfriend (Dylan Bruno) in a […]

Jan, 17

Where the Heart Is ** (1990, Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Plummer, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 9271

Producer-director John Boorman’s 1990 comedy drama Where the Heart Is is a modern comedic New York version of King Lear, with Dabney Coleman as Stewart McBain, an arrogant builder real-estate mogul who kicks out his […]

Jan, 16

A Question of Attribution **** (1991, James Fox, Prunella Scales, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9270

‘Awfully able man, that’s the tragedy of it.’ A Question of Attribution (1991) is a careful and opulent transfer to film by director John Schlesinger of Alan Bennett’s witty and wise one-act play, with most […]

Jan, 16

An Englishman Abroad **** (1983, Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 9269

Alan Bennett’s sharply witty screenplay for An Englishman Abroad (1983) is taken from the actress Coral Browne’s anecdote about how she met notorious spy traitor Guy Burgess in an Old Vic theatre exchange tour of […]

Jan, 16

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