Derek Winnert

The Next of Kin **** (1942, Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8164

Director Thorold Dickinson’s fascinating 1942 British black and white World War Two wartime propaganda thriller, about careless talk costing lives, was expanded by Ealing Studios from an army training film commissioned by the British War […]

Feb, 22 · in Reviews

The Halfway House **** (1944, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Alfred Drayton, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 8163

Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]

Feb, 22 · in Reviews

John Paul Jones ** (1959, Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Bette Davis) – Classic Movie Review 8162

Director John Farrow’s 1959 swashbuckling, naval history adventure movie John Paul Jones stars Robert Stack as the Scottish adventurer and American Revolutionary War naval hero, based on the story Nor’wester by Clements Ripley. He makes it […]

Feb, 21
Man in the Moon ** (1960, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 8161

Man in the Moon ** (1960, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Michael Hordern, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 8161

Director Basil Dearden’s silly 1960 British black and white satirical comedy Man in the Moon tackles the then topical subject of sending the first astronaut into space. It is occasionally amusing, but mostly it is […]

Feb, 21

Capernaum [Capharnaüm] **** (2018, Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad, Fadi Yousef, Haita ‘Cedra’ Izzam, Alaa Chouchnieh, Nadine Labaki, Elias Khoury) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum [Capharnaüm] [Chaos] (2018) is a well deserved Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year for Lebanon. Zain Al Rafeea gives a brilliant little performance as Zain, a […]

Feb, 21

The Disappearance *** (1977, Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, Christopher Plummer, John Hurt, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Virginia McKenna ) – Classic Movie Review 8160

Director Stuart Cooper’s 1977 Canadian neo noir thriller The Disappearance is a sleekly made and intriguing upmarket mystery, based on Derek Marlowe’s novel Echoes of Celandine, starring Donald Sutherland as a contract killer called Jay […]

Feb, 21

The Private Life of Don Juan ** (1934, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Gina Malo, Benita Hume, Melville Cooper, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8,159

Alexander Korda’s 1934 British romantic comedy drama film The Private Life of Don Juan stars Douglas Fairbanks Sr in his final role as an aging Don Juan, along with Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Gina […]

Feb, 20

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