Derek Winnert

Night Boat to Dublin *** (1946, Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow, Herbert Lom, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton) – Classic Movie Review 9161

Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom enliven writer-director Lawrence Huntington’s very brisk and competent, entertaining 1946 British spy thriller Night Boat to Dublin, with a routine plot about an MI5 man, Captain David Grant […]

Dec, 15 · in Reviews

Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] **** (1941, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 9160

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] is a tense, exciting, well-meaning, intelligent British wartime propaganda thriller, in which a Nazi-sympathiser actress, Irena Roder (Diana Wynyard), chums up to Hitler in […]

Dec, 15 · in Reviews

Albert RN [Break to Freedom] **** (1953, Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9159

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 Albert RN [Break to Freedom] is a deservedly famous British Fifties World War Two prisoner-of-war camp movie, with notable stiff-upper-lipped acting, in which the true Brits, fed up with escapes that […]

Dec, 15

Harlem Nights * (1989, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello, Michael Lerner, Della Reese) – Classic Movie Review 9158

Writer-executive producer-director-star Eddie Murphy’s 1989 Thirties gangster movie Harlem Nights is a very handsome-looking film, produced on opulent sets, with a terrific score by Herbie Hancock and soundtrack by Duke Ellington, and charismatic acting from […]

Dec, 15

Of Human Hearts *** (1938, Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 9157

MGM’s 1938 emotional celebration of America and family life Of Human Hearts is set in an Ohio town during the American Civil War, and stars James Stewart as Jason Wilkins, the wayward son of poor […]

Dec, 14

Of Human Bondage * (1964, Laurence Harvey, Kim Novak, Nanette Newman, Roger Livesey, Jack Hedley, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9156

Henry Hathaway began the direction, and the film’s screen-writer Bryan Forbes took over for one week (uncredited), and then Ken Hughes took over as rescue to finish the shooting of the 1964 third film version […]

Dec, 14

Of Human Bondage ** (1946, Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, Edmund Gwenn, Patric Knowles, Janis Paige) – Classic Movie Review 9155

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1946 black and white film of W Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage has the misfortune to follow director John Cromwell’s much more exciting 1934 version of Of Human Bondage with the […]

Dec, 14

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