Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

Street Angel **** (1928, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston) – Classic Movie Review 7537

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]

Sep, 03

Perfect Day ** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Kay Deslys, Isabelle Keith) – Classic Movie Review 7536

The title of Perfect Day (1929) is ironic of course as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take their wives Mrs Laurel (Isabelle Keith) and Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) and gouty Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) out […]

Sep, 03

A Perfect Couple **** (1979, Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis) – Classic Movie Review 7535

Director Robert Altman’s zany 1979 romantic comedy A Perfect Couple is appealing and effervescent movie, in which the repressed, middle-aged, divorced Greek-American cook/ antique dealer Alex Theodopoulos (Paul Dooley) is computer-dated with much younger rock […]

Sep, 03

Streamers **** (1983, Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein) – Classic Movie Review 7534

Boldly treating the cinema screen like a theatre stage, director Robert Altman films his 1983 success Streamers on a single location – the army barracks dormitory where a group of young US recruits are waiting […]

Sep, 03

Quintet * (1979, Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 7533

In the same year as he did the successful romantic comedy A Perfect Couple, director Robert Altman made this disastrous sci-fi mystery muddle Quintet (1979), set during a distant future inhospitable ice age, with Paul […]

Sep, 03

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