Derek Winnert

Spare Time **** (1939, voice of Laurie Lee) – Classic Movie Review 9175

Spare Time (1939) is a classic 15-minute documentary from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings on the theme of what the British workers get up to in their spare time. The commentary is provided by the voice […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Spare the Rod *** (1961, Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 9174

Director Leslie Norman’s socially aware 1961 black and white film drama Spare the Rod is a sympathetic, involving exposé of the tough life in the British state schools of the day, with Donald Pleasence as […]

Dec, 19 · in Reviews

Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows! ** (1968, Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 9,173

Rosalind Russell stars again as the Mother Superior in the 1968 comedy sequel film Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows! Stella Stevens co-stars as a young nun who sympathises with the rebellious convent students. And where […]

Dec, 19

The Trouble with Angels ** (1966, Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, June Harding, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 9,172

The 1966 comedy film The Trouble with Angels stars Hayley Mills and June Harding as naughty schoolgirls running wild in a Pennsylvanian Catholic convent boarding school, where canny Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) tames and civilises […]

Dec, 19

Oliver Twist *** (1982, George C Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern) – Classic Movie Review 9171

Director Clive Donner’s 1982 Oliver Twist is an excellent TV movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale starring George C Scott as an almost fatherly Fagin and Tim Curry as the evil thug Bill […]

Dec, 19

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders ** (1965, Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Angela Lansbury, Leo McKern, Daniel Massey, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 9170

Floundering Flanders  ‘I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.’ Paramount clearly wanted to turn Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel into a cash-in on the success of 1963’s Tom Jones […]

Dec, 19

Jamaica Run ** (1953, Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 9169

Mayhem and murder ensue when there are six rivals for a family estate in writer-director Lewis R Foster’s routine, production-line 1953 Caribbean ocean-going mystery action thriller Jamaica Run. Ray Milland stars as schooner captain Patrick […]

Dec, 18

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