Derek Winnert

Tawny Pipit *** (1944, Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis) – Classic Movie Review 8634

Bernard Miles co-writes and co-directs (with Charles Saunders) and produces and stars in the 1944 British black and white wartime comedy Tawny Pipit, a gently winsome piece of whimsy about the momentarily near-calamitous events that […]

Jun, 24 · in Reviews

The Taming of the Shrew *** (1929, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Edwin Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 8633

Douglas Fairbanks Sr and his wife Mary Pickford at their end of their great run of success finally star together – and entertain! – as a virile Petruchio and tempestuous Kate in director Sam Taylor’s […]

Jun, 24 · in Reviews

Pretty Baby ** (1978, Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas, Gerrit Graham, Mae Mercer, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 8632

Louis Malle’s highly disturbing and controversial American debut with the 1978 Pretty Baby caused quite a few shock waves with its World War One story set in 1917 about a 12-year-old girl Violet (Brooke Shields), […]

Jun, 23

Androcles and the Lion *** (1952, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Reginald Gardiner, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 8631

The George Bernard Shaw play roars on to the screen in director Chester Erskine’s 1952 drama Androcles and the Lion, with its ancient Rome story of Androcles (Alan Young), the nice Christian tailor who removes a […]

Jun, 23

Tamahine ** (1963, John Fraser, Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price, Derek Nimmo, Justine Lord, James Fox, Coral Browne, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 8630

Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 Tamahine is a fusty, mild, old-style romantic comedy with plenty of routine, school-set and culture-clash laughs, based on the novel by Thelma Nicklaus. But it rolls along pleasantly and humorously, though […]

Jun, 23

My Teenage Daughter [Teenage Bad Girl] ** (1956, Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Kenneth Haigh, Wilfrid Hyde White, Julia Lockwood, Helen Haye, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 8629

‘SYLVIA SYMS ‘teen and terrific…in an explosive role!’ ‘She’s a doll !… she’s a dish !… she’s a delinquent!’ ‘Born good with a desire to be bad!’ Sylvia Syms (playing 17 but actually 22 and […]

Jun, 23

The Tamarind Seed *** (1974, Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Oskar Homolka, Sylvia Syms, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 8628

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s enjoyable 1974 movie The Tamarind Seed is a handsome production, with sprightly direction, and the super, pleasing stars convert Evelyn Anthony’s novel into an attractive, appealing romantic, spy thriller movie. As usual, […]

Jun, 23

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