Derek Winnert

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The Winslow Boy **** (1948, Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Neil North, Margaret Leighton, Jack Watling, Basil Radford) – Classic Movie Review 2743

Sir Terence Rattigan’s scintillating, beautifully written stage play comes to the screen in director Anthony Asquith’s respectful, riveting and inspiring 1948 film version with its drama and dialogue almost intact. However, it shows the actual trial, […]

Jul, 26

The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431

Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]

Apr, 27

The Last Five Years *** (2014, Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan) – Movie Review

Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan star as a struggling actress and her novelist lover Jamie, who look back on the deconstruction of their five -year love affair in writer-director Richard LaGravenese‘s musical. It is based on the musical play […]

Apr, 16

Downhill *** (1927, Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel) – Classic Movie Review 2286

Welsh actor and composer Ivor Novello stars as English boarding schoolboy Roddy Berwick, who is unjustly condemned for a sexual indiscretion after he takes the blame for a friend, in director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film […]

Mar, 20

A French Mistress *** (1960, Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, Agnès Laurent) – Classic Movie Review 2117

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s saucy 1960 comedy A French Mistress stars James Robertson Justice as Robert Martin or ‘Bow Wow’, Cecil Parker as John Crane MA. headmaster of Melbury School, Raymond Huntley as the reverend Edwin Peake, […]

Jan, 26

The Ritz **** (1976, Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller, Treat Williams) – Classic Movie Review 1,950

The Ritz premiered on Broadway in 1975 with a cast including Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Jerry Stiller and F Murray Abraham, all of whom reprise their roles in the 1976 film. Treat Williams is a […]

Dec, 13

The Riot Club ** (2014, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth, Max Irons) – Movie Review

Two first-year students at Oxford University are invited to join the infamous elite Riot Club, where they say witty things like ‘I’m sick to f**king death of poor people’ and reputations are made or destroyed in a […]

Sep, 18

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