Derek Winnert

Madame Bovary **** (1949, Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, James Mason, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin) – Classic Movie Review 7347

MGM take a dip into French literature and both survive! Director Vincente Minnelli’s lavish and well-played 1949 American production finds James Mason cast as the 19th-century writer Gustave Flaubert, who is on trial for corruption […]

Jul, 26 · in Uncategorized

Madame Bovary *** (1937, Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher, Ferdinand Marian) – Classic Movie Review 7346

Director Gerhard Lamprecht’s 1937 German version of Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel of Madame Bovary is heavy handed but intriguing, involving and well crafted. The iconic Polish silent movie star Pola Negri (1897–1987) makes an attractive […]

Jul, 26 · in Uncategorized

Madame Bovary **** (1934, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Fernand Fabre, Daniel Lecourtois) – Classic Movie Review 7345

[Spoiler alert] Jean Renoir’s captivating and compelling 1934 film version of Gustave Flaubert’s classic literature novel story of how Emma Bovary (Valentine Tessier) is stifled after she marries boring Normandy doctor Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir, […]

Jul, 26

Madame Bovary *** (1991, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy) – Classic Movie Review 7344

The ideally cast Isabelle Huppert and Jean-François Balmer are splendid in Claude Chabrol’s lavish, handsome and well-played but dry, chilly, dark and depressing French 1991 film production of Gustave Flaubert’s much re-told story of how […]

Jul, 26

O Henry’s Full House **** (1952, Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Dale Robertson, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Gregory Ratoff, Fred Allen, Oscar Levant, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 7343

‘A dozen top stars – five famed directors – bring you the best stories of O. Henry!’ The 20th Century Fox studio’s compendium anthology film of five of O Henry’s most celebrated stories from his New […]

Jul, 26

Madame Butterfly ** (1932, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7342

Director Marion Gering’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Madame Butterfly is an antique curio, but nevertheless an interesting one, and Sylvia Sidney makes something touching of the famous tragic heroine. The normally polished Cary Grant […]

Jul, 25

My Brilliant Career **** (1979, Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Patricia Kennedy, Aileen Britton) – Classic Movie Review 7341

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 Australian feminist drama My Brilliant Career stars Judy Davis, giving a commanding performance in her second film as Sybylla Melvyn, the fiercely independent, self-assured Aussie bush-farmer’s daughter who wants to take […]

Jul, 25

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