Derek Winnert

Nothing But Trouble *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland, Henry O’Neill, Philip Merivale, David Leland) – Classic Movie Review 8511

Directors Sam Taylor and Bert Glazer’s 1944 comedy Nothing but Trouble is a rickety, late-period, slightly below-par outing from Laurel and Hardy – with an unusually daft plot about bad guy Prince Saul (Philip Merivale)’s […]

May, 29 · in Uncategorized

Moss Rose *** (1947, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, Rhys Williams, George Zucco, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 8510

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1947 Moss Rose stars Victor Mature in a smooth, old-style murder melodrama, set in Hollywood’s usual idea of old foggy London, in which he plays Michael Drego, who is suspected of killing a […]

May, 28 · in Uncategorized

Mosquito Squadron ** (1969, David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8509

The first outing for the RAF’s bouncing bomb, in which in 1944 the British attack a rocket base in France, is related in director Boris Sagal’s odd, very small-scale 1969 World War Two action thriller […]

May, 28

633 Squadron *** (1964, Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8508

Director Walter Grauman’s 1964 movie 633 Squadron stars Cliff Robertson (as Wing Commander Roy Grant) and an oddly cast George Chakiris (as Lieutenant Erik Bergman), who keep their tongues in their cheeks and their upper […]

May, 28

The Night My Number Came Up **** (1955, Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 8507

A military transport aircraft’s flight from Hong Kong to Japan starts to bear a startling similarity to one of the passenger’s bad dreams, which had ended with a plane crash. Michael Redgrave stars as the […]

May, 28

Great Day *** (1945, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim) – Classic Movie Review 8,506

The 1945 British drama film Great Day stars Eric Portman, Flora Robson and Sheila Sim in a story about the excitement in an English village at the upcoming visit of American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Director Lance […]

May, 28

The Virgin and the Gypsy *** (1970, Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 8505

D H Lawrence’s minor tale of an English clergyman’s prim and proper virginal daughter Yvette (played by Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus) who falls for the sexual charms of a glowering, pale-eyed, seductively virile gypsy (Italian […]

May, 27

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