Derek Winnert

The Admirable Crichton [Paradise Lagoon] **** (1957, Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 7,757

Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker and Sally Ann Howes star in director Lewis Gilbert’s amusing 1957 British south seas adventure comedy romance film The Admirable Crichton, based on J M Barrie’s 1902 play. Director […]

Nov, 05 · in Reviews

The Long Night ** (1947, Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 7756

  Using the original screenplay by Jacques Viot as a basis, director Anatole Litvak remakes the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour se Lève [Daybreak] to much lesser effect in his 1947 RKO black […]

Nov, 05 · in Reviews

Pathfinder [Ofelaš] ***** (1987, Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Helgi Skúlason, Henrik H Buljo) – Classic Movie Review 7,755

Nils Gaup’s 1988 Pathfinder [Ofelaš] is a thrilling and hypnotic Norwegian adventure film, a mix of violent action and Lapp legend. Writer-director Nils Gaup’s 1988 Pathfinder [Ofelaš] is a thrilling and hypnotic Norwegian adventure film, […]

Nov, 04

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England *** (1960, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7754

The IRA plot to upset the English economy at the turn of the last century in 1901 by sending in a three man crew to steal all the Bank of England’s loot of gold in its […]

Nov, 04

To Paris with Love ** (1955, Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray, Elina Labourdette, Jacques François, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7753

Director Robert Hamer’s 1954 British comedy drama To Paris with Love stars Alec Guinness as the ageing, greying British widower Colonel Sir Edgar Fraser who takes his grown-up son John Fraser (Vernon Gray) off to […]

Nov, 04

His Excellency ** (1952, Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Susan Stephen, Edward Chapman, Robin Bailey, Clive Morton, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 7752

The 1951 film comedy His Excellency is based on a London stage comedy by Dorothy Christie and Campbell Christie, in which a British socialist government sends dockers’ trade union supporter George Harrison (Eric Portman) to rule […]

Nov, 04

The Long Memory *** (1953, John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh) – Classic Movie Review 7751

Director Robert Hamer’s 1953 British black-and-white film noir thriller The Long Memory is a rather tame and routine crime drama that, as a story, is not always too convincing and probably will not live too […]

Nov, 04

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