Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Uncategorized

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

Priest of Love ** (1981, Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith, Jorge Rivero, John Gielgud, Graham Faulkner) – Classic Movie Review 8504

Director Christopher Miles’s 1981 literary biopic Priest of Love is written by Alan Plater, based on the book by Harry T Moore and the letters and writings of D H Lawrence, and stars Ian McKellen, […]

May, 27

Callan **** (1974, Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8503

Director Don Sharp’s excellent 1974 British crime action thriller Callan [The Neutralizer] is an imaginatively developed and extended version of the opening programme of Edward Woodward’s popular TV show from 1967, about a lonely, ruthless […]

May, 27

The Last Grenade ** (1970, Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Rafer Johnson, John Thaw, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, Ray Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 8502

Director Gordon Flemyng’s 1970 British war film The Last Grenade is a one-dimensional, brutal movie about the fatal conflict between two ex-buddy soldiers of fortune, Major Harry Grigsby (Stanley Baker) and turncoat Kip Thompson (Alex Cord), […]

May, 27

Innocent Bystanders ** (1972, Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 8501

Donald Pleasence and Dana Andrews play the heads of British and US intelligence, and Stanley Baker plays the top British spy-in-action, in director Peter Collinson’s 1972 Innocent Bystanders, a rather feeble secret agent thriller about […]

May, 26

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