Derek Winnert

Some Girls Do * (1969, Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Loncar) – Classic Movie Review 9130

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1969 comedy action adventure thriller Some Girls Do is the mostly tedious sequel to Deadlier than the Male, in which Richard Johnson returns as Sapper’s spy hero character Hugh Bulldog Drummond, who […]

Dec, 05 · in Reviews

Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] * (1968, Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9129

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]

Dec, 05 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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