Derek Winnert

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Hamlet ***** (1948, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Holloway, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3647

Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]

May, 02

The Hands of Orlac *** (1960, Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Christopher Lee, Donald Wolfit, Felix Aylmer, Basil Sydney, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 3110

The 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing third film of the famous Maurice Renard novel. Co-writer/director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing […]

Nov, 29

Treasure Island **** (1950, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 2058

Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Go on, Talk Like […]

Jan, 09

The Dam Busters **** (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1857

Director Michael Anderson’s 1954 true life wartime adventure movie brings the once famous story of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that blasted open Germany’s crucial Ruhr dams in 1943 to vivid life. At the centre and heart […]

Nov, 18

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