Derek Winnert

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 · in Uncategorized

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 · in Reviews

Lilacs in the Spring ** (1954, Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar) – Classic Movie Review 8033

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring [Let’s Make Up] is an odd movie that veers from drama, comedy and romance towards fantasy. His wife Anna Neagle stars as young entertainer Carole Beaumont, […]

Jan, 19

No Road Back ** (1957, Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland, Margaret Rawlings, Eleanor Summerfield, Alfie Bass, Sean Connery, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 8032

Six years after his first London stage appearance in South Pacific, Connery, aged 27, makes his film debut proper as Spike in a small part in director Montgomery Tully’s 1957 British black and white B-movie […]

Jan, 18

Family Business *** (1989, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8031

Sean Connery has good fun with his role as an ageing small-time hoodlum, a career criminal called Jessie, in director Sidney Lumet’s excellent, well-plotted 1989 heist thriller Family Business. It is sharply directed by Lumet, […]

Jan, 18

Easy Money ** (1983, Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 8030

Director James Signorelli’s 1983 comedy Easy Money stars Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti, a grotesquely self-indulgent child portraitist who is left a huge inheritance by his immensely rich mother-in-law Mrs Monahan (Geraldine Fitzgerald) if he […]

Jan, 18

Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029

Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]

Jan, 18

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