Derek Winnert

The Holly and the Ivy *** (1952, Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott, John Gregson, Hugh Williams, Maureen Delaney, Margaret Halstan) – Classic Movie Review 8,120

The 1952 British drama film The Holly and the Ivy stars Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson, who give warm performances as a Norfolk rector and his daughter struggling to keep their family in good spirits […]

Feb, 12 · in Reviews

Nurse on Wheels *** (1963, Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, Esma Cannon, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8119

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 black and white comedy Nurse on Wheels stars Juliet Mills as a young nurse called Joanna Jones, who gets on her bike and cycles around a rural England community full of […]

Feb, 12 · in Reviews

Twice Round the Daffodils *** (1962, Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 8118

Juliet Mills stars as a nice nurse called Catty, who tends randy, troublesome patients, in director Gerald Thomas’s minor, very British 1962 farce Twice Round the Daffodils, set in a men’s tuberculosis clinic, where, as […]

Feb, 11

Raising the Wind [Roommates] ** (1961, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Paul Massie, Liz Fraser, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 8117

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 British comedy Raising the Wind [Roommates] is a kind of Carry On Up the Music Academy, with much of the same Carry On team in front of and behind the camera. […]

Feb, 11

Raising a Riot *** (1955, Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller) – Classic Movie Review 8116

Director Wendy Toye’s bright and breezy 1955 Technicolor British comedy Raising a Riot stars Kenneth More as Tony Kent, who has just had three years in the Navy and returns home to discover that his […]

Feb, 11

Rambling Rose **** (1991, Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard, Kevin Conway) – Classic Movie Review 8,115

The 1991 drama film Rambling Rose stars the splendid daughter and mother team of Laura Dern and Diane Ladd, both of them Oscar and Golden Globe nominated. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1991 drama film Rambling Rose […]

Feb, 10

Clive of India **** (1935, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive) – Classic Movie Review 8114

Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1934 Clive of India stars Ronald Colman, as Robert Clive, who starts as a humble clerk and moves up to building the British Empire as leader of the troops in India, but […]

Feb, 10

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