Derek Winnert

King’s Rhapsody ** (1955, Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8039

Ivor Novello’s last operetta King’s Rhapsody (1950) concerns an exiled Ruritarian king, Richard of Laurentia (a sadly on-the-skids Errol Flynn), forsaking true love with commoner Marta Karillos (Anna Neagle, too old for this at the […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

The Lady with a Lamp *** (1951, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young) – Classic Movie Review 8038

The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

Nurse Edith Cavell ***(1939, Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, Zasu Pitts, H B Warner, Alan Marshal) -Classic Movie Review 8037

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s moving 1939 biographical drama Nurse Edith Cavell stars Anna Neagle in one of her most famous roles as Edith Cavell, the gallant, dedicated English nurse who so loyally and bravely served the allied troops […]

Jan, 20

Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] *** (1938, Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C Aubrey Smith, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 8036

Director Herbert Wilcox’s colourful 1938 royal historical drama sequel Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] stars Dame Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria again in the gorgeously photographed Technicolor follow-up to the 1937 black-and-white hit Victoria the […]

Jan, 20

Victoria the Great *** (1937, Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H B Warner, Felix Aylmer, Mary Morris) – Classic Movie Review 8035

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1937 historical drama Victoria the Great stars a right regal Anna Neagle who gives an impressive, indeed royal, performance as Queen Victoria, in a stirring black and white look at highspots of […]

Jan, 20

Nell Gwyn *** (1934, Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne De Casalis) – Classic Movie Review 8034

Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1934 rollicking 1660s-set costume romp Nell Gwyn stars Anna Neagle as brazen common English orange-vendor and actress Nell Gynn, who competes with the snooty aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth (Jeanne De Casalis) for the […]

Jan, 20

Jellyfish **** (2018, Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri) – Movie Review

I really appreciated Jellyfish. It is first class. Newcomer Liv Hill is just great as 15-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Taylor, the sole carer of her family, including precocious young twin siblings and an unfunctioning manic-depressive mother (Sinead […]

Jan, 19

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