Derek Winnert

The Awakening ** (1980, Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist) – Classic Movie Review 7506

Mike Newell makes his debut as cinema director for the 1980 British horror movie The Awakening, a remake of the 1971 Hammer favourite Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, and also another version of the 1903 Bram Stoker novel […]

Aug, 28 · in Reviews

When Ladies Meet **** (1933, Ann Harding, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, Alice Brady, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7505

Director Harry Beaumont’s crackling 1933 MGM classic romantic comedy drama When Ladies Meet is the first of two film versions of Rachel Crothers’s sophisticated 1932 play, smartly shot in black and white by Ray June […]

Aug, 27 · in Reviews

When Ladies Meet *** (1941, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 7504

‘Hollywood Parade Of Stars In Gay Romance’ – sounds appealing, huh? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have another go in 1941 at filming Rachel Crothers’s 1932 play following their 1933 movie When Ladies Meet with Ann Harding, Robert […]

Aug, 27

Klondike Annie *** (1936, Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 7503

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1936 musical comedy Western is Mae West’s sixth movie vehicle from the time of her unexpected huge stardom. The screenplay is by the star, based on her play Frisco Kate by Mae […]

Aug, 27

The Spy Who Dumped Me * (2018, Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj) – Movie Review

Another spy spoof – really? In 2018? And another film using The Spy Who Loved Me as its spoof title, following The Spy Who Shagged Me of course. Real spy films are getting played out […]

Aug, 27

La Tendre Ennemie [Tender Enemy] *** (1936, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana) – Classic Movie Review 7502

Co-writer/ producer/ director Max Ophüls’s diverting 1936 French film La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) tells the charming tale about three dead men, ghosts who encounter each other again in the afterlife and end up dissecting their […]

Aug, 26

Tender Is the Night *** (1962, Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 7501

F Scott Fitzgerald’s great 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Tender Is the Night about rich, troubled Americans in Europe in the jazz age Twenties is difficult to film, as the BBC found in its 1985 six-part serial […]

Aug, 26

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