Derek Winnert

Benjamin [Benjamin ou Les mémoires d’un puceau] [The Diary of an Innocent Boy] *** (1968, Michèle Morgan, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Clémenti, Catherine Deneuve) – Classic Movie Review 9128

Back in the far-off days when Pierre Clémenti was a bright young French star to watch, he played an 18th-century orphan youth whose wealthy aunt, the beautiful Countess Gabrielle de Valandry (Michèle Morgan), teaches him […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

Ben *** (1972, Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 9127

Director Phil Karlson’s horror thriller Ben (1972) is the bloody but not too terrible horror sequel to Willard which, by sticking close to the original 1971 film story, can just about please those who enjoyed Bruce […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

The Bells Go Down *** (1943, Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Philip Friend) – Classic Movie Review 9126

Director Basil Dearden’s 1943 The Bells Go Down has its appeal but it suffers by comparison with the same year’s Fires Were Started. You didn’t expect to see Tommy Trinder and James Mason in the […]

Dec, 04

A Diary for Timothy **** (1945, Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9125

What will happen to a baby boy born in 1944, the last September of the war? Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1945 short film A Diary for Timothy is another of his Crown Film Unit classics. Director […]

Dec, 04

Fires Were Started [I Was a Fireman] **** (1943, Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 9124

Writer-director Humphrey Jennings’s wonderfully sensitive, realistic and moving 1943 documentary Fires Were Started about a London fire unit’s 24-hour day during the German air-raid bombings of winter 1940 elevates mundane detail to sublime significance and […]

Dec, 04

The Trygon Factor ** (1966, Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley, Cathleen Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 9123

Director Cyril Frankel’s crazily convoluted, murky 1966 thriller The Trygon Factor is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace (uncredited) and stars Stewart Granger as Scotland Yard inspector Superintendent Cooper-Smith investigating an oddball English family […]

Dec, 04

Man in the Wilderness **** (1971, Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, John Bindon, Prunella Ransome, Henry Wilcoxon, Ben Carruthers, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman) – Classic Movie Review 9122

Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1971 adventure Man in the Wilderness is a gory but involving great outdoors tale propelled with a rousing turn from Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a beaver hunter marooned in the […]

Dec, 03

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