Derek Winnert

The Rose Tattoo **** (1955, Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan) – Classic Movie Review 7,544

The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]

Sep, 05 · in Reviews

The Return of Swamp Thing ** (1989, Louis Jourdan, Heather Locklear, Sarah Douglas, Dick Durock) – Classic Movie Review 7543

Director Jim Wynorski’s campy 1989 American sci-fi action movie The Return of Swamp Thing, based on the DC Comic book by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, is a sequel to Wes Craven’s 1982 Swamp Thing, but this time with a risky […]

Sep, 05 · in Reviews

Paisà [Paisan] ***** (1946, Carmela Sazio, Joseph Garland Moore Jr, William Tubbs, Maria Michi, Harriet Medin) – Classic Movie Review 7542

The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]

Sep, 04

Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] ***** (1948, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne) – Classic Movie Review 7541

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1947 Italian neo-realist masterpiece classic drama Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] is a horrific portrait of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, as experienced by a 12-year-old lad (Edmund […]

Sep, 04

Seventh Heaven *** (1937, James Stewart, Simone Simon, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff, Gale Sondergaard, J Edward Bromberg, John Qualen, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7540

Director Henry King’s 1937 romantic drama Seventh Heaven is an intriguing but mostly unsatisfactory remake of the 1927 silent film classic 7th Heaven with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. This time James Stewart is improbably […]

Sep, 04

None Shall Escape **** (1944, Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 7,539

The 1944 war film None Shall Escape was made during World War Two but it is set in a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. Alexander Knox plays Wilhelm Grimm, the Nazi officer on trial. ‘I would rather die than be forced into a […]

Sep, 04

7th Heaven [Seventh Heaven] **** (1927, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard) – Classic Movie Review 7538

Director Frank Borzage’s achingly yearning and appealing – though alas now faded – 1927 silent classic 7th Heaven is a romantic, idealised view of the lower depths. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell star as a […]

Sep, 03

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