Derek Winnert

The Phantom Light *** (1935, Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer, Herbert Lomas) – Classic Movie Review 7957

In his minor 1935 early effort The Phantom Light, director Michael Powell injects a strong, haunting atmosphere into a jovial suspense comedy-thriller yarn set around a supposedly haunted Welsh lighthouse, whose keeper has earlier been […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

Red Ensign [Strike!] *** (1934, Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton) – Classic Movie Review 7956

Esteemed British film-maker Michael Powell’s 1934 Red Ensign [US title: Strike!] is an intriguing early low-budget (£12,000) quota quickie from him. Even so, it was Powell’s 12th film in four years, and, humble though it is, it is […]

Dec, 29 · in Uncategorized

The Love Test ** (1935, Judy Gunn, Louis Hayward, David Hutcheson, Googie Withers, Bernard Miles, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 7955

The Love Test is an early Michael Powell 1935 romantic comedy about love shenanigans among a laboratory’s research chemists, who plot to make their disliked new boss, Mary Lee (Judy Gunn), fall for John Gregg […]

Dec, 29

The Florodora Girl *** (1930, Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett) – Classic Movie Review 7954

The one-time ‘Queen of the Screen’ Marion Davies stars as New York chorus girl Daisy Dell the Florodora Girl, in the Gay Nineties – the 1890s, that is. Daisy’s married friends encourage her to reject her life […]

Dec, 29

Floods of Fear *** (1958, Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Harry H Corbett, Cyril Cusack, John Crawford, Eddie Byrne, John Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7953

Charles Crichton, best known for his comedies, directs this robust, tough-toned British-made, but American-set 1958 black and white action adventure thriller Floods of Fear. The story is about two convicts (Howard Keel, Cyril Cusack), a […]

Dec, 29

Floodtide *** (1949, Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert) – Classic Movie Review 7952

Director Frederick Wilson’s 1949 British drama Floodtide stars Gordon Jackson as young Scots ships apprentice David Shields, who graduates to boat designing, while he is meantime romancing his boss Anstruther (Jack Lambert)’s daughter Mary (Rona […]

Dec, 28

No Time for Comedy *** (1940, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7951

Director William Keighley’s 1940 screwball romantic comedy No Time for Comedy stars James Stewart as comedy playwright Gay Esterbrook who scores a hit with his first Broadway play and then wants to write something heavyweight, […]

Dec, 28

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