Derek Winnert

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The Lady with a Lamp *** (1951, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young) – Classic Movie Review 8038

The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]

Jan, 20

The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1968, Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jill Bennett, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4724

Director Tony Richardson’s last great film is a superb reworking of, as well as antidote to, the old romantic and heroic fictionalised Errol Flynn film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), seen through the […]

Nov, 30

The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1936, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Donald Crisp, C Aubrey Smith, David Niven, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4723

Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]

Nov, 30

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