Derek Winnert

Young Bess *** (1953, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kathleen Byron, Kay Walsh, Guy Rolfe, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7424

MGM’s well-crafted 1953 Technicolor historical biopic film Young Bess stars Jean Simmons as the young Queen Elizabeth I, Stewart Granger as her suitor, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, and Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr. Director […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

Howl’s Moving Castle [Hauru no ugoku shiro] ***** (2004, voices of Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin) – Classic Movie Review 7423

Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki’s dazzlingly brilliant Japanese anime love story animation Howl’s Moving Castle [Hauru no ugoku shiro] is based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones ((credited as Daiana Win Jônzu). It is a Studio Ghibli […]

Aug, 10 · in Reviews

The Blue Lagoon *** (1949, Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Maurice Denham, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 7422

Following a 1923 silent, director Frank Launder’s 1949 The Blue Lagoon is the original Forties film version of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel about a boy and girl, marooned on a desert island, who grow […]

Aug, 10

Green Hell ** (1940, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Alan Hale Sr, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7,421

James Whale’s 1940 jungle adventure film Green Hell stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, George Sanders and Vincent Price. Fairbanks Jr called it ‘hell’. Price said it was ‘one of the funniest films ever shot’. […]

Aug, 09

Two Tars **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7420

Director James Parrott’s elaborate and inventive 1928 Two Tars is a tip-top Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 21-minute silent short film of madcap mayhem. Laurel and Hardy play the two tars, sailors on shore leave […]

Aug, 09

Stolen Holiday *** (1937, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7419

Director Michael Curtiz’s impeccably presented, impressively played and well scripted 1937 romantic crime drama Stolen Holiday is based on a fictionalised version of the exploits of real-life Russian Jewish financier and conman Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky. […]

Aug, 09

Stavisky… *** (1974, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 7418

Director Alain Resnais’s arty 1974 film Stavisky looks great and there is good playing all round from a strong cast, with the stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Boyer well used. But it is more successful […]

Aug, 08

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