Derek Winnert

The Third Secret ** (1964, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Pamela Franklin, Rachel Kempson, Diane Cilento Margaret Leighton, Paul Rogers, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 8000

Director Charles Crichton’s 1964 The Third Secret is a muddled and ponderous suspense thriller that is comprised of a number of short stories joined together by the plot device of having a prominent psychiatrist’s daughter […]

Jan, 11 · in Reviews

No Time for Flowers ** (1952, Viveca Lindfors, Paul Hubschmid, Ludwig Stössel) – Classic Movie Review 7999

‘Kisses and champagne behind the Iron Curtain.’ Director Don Siegel’s 1952 black and white film No Time for Flowers is a Ninotchka or Comrade X-style comedy, pleasant enough but not as good as either of them. László […]

Jan, 10 · in Reviews

They Shall Not Grow Old **** (2018, director Peter Jackson) – Movie Review

Director Peter Jackson’s magnificent and beautiful World War One documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) is uniquely informative, evocative, moving and heart-rending, as well as a brilliant technical achievement in its incredible 3D colour […]

Jan, 10

Man in the Shadow ** (1957, Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller) – Classic Movie Review 7998

Director Jack Arnold’s 1957 CinemaScope and black and white Western film Man in the Shadow [Pay the Devil] stars the odd couple of Jeff Chandler and Orson Welles, along with Colleen Miller. It was made […]

Jan, 10

Mary Poppins Returns ** (2018, Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters) – Movie Review

So it turns out that Mary Poppins can turn back time, and that’s what Disney can do too in this out-of-its-time sequel to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins Returns is, as the title implies, supposed to […]

Jan, 10

The Horse’s Mouth ** (1958, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renée Houston) – Classic Movie Review 7997

Alec Guinness both plays the dedicated non-conformist London artist hero Gulley Jimson seeking his artistic ideal and writes the screenplay of director Ronald Neame’s lifeless, disappointing 1958 British film of Joyce Cary’s 1944 novel The Horse’s […]

Jan, 09

Malta Story ** (1953, Alec Guinness, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, Renée Asherson, Hugh Burden, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 7996

In the middle of a long run of comedy hits, Alec Guinness seems out of his territory in director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1953 Malta Story, a dully conventional war picture about a British flight lieutenant […]

Jan, 09

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