Derek Winnert

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How I Won the War *** (1967, Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern) – Classic Movie Review 8220

Director Richard Lester’s iconic 1967 British comedy How I Won the War is a frenzied and frantic send-up of war movies, working from a surreal script by Charles Wood, based on Patrick Ryan’s novel. It […]

Mar, 09

The Great Man’s Lady *** (1942, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 8176

Producer-director William A Wellman’s 1941 The Great Man’s Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as a centenarian pioneer woman called Hannah Sempler Hoyt, who looks back over her life as the wife of pioneer Ethan Hoyt (Joel […]

Feb, 27

Welcome to Marwen **** (2018, Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Falk Hentschel, Matt O’Leary) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen follows the story of Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) who has been smashed up by five men and left for dead in a hate crime. They called him ‘queer’ […]

Jan, 03

The Long Night ** (1947, Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 7756

  Using the original screenplay by Jacques Viot as a basis, director Anatole Litvak remakes the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour se Lève [Daybreak] to much lesser effect in his 1947 RKO black […]

Nov, 05

None Shall Escape **** (1944, Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 7539

‘I would rather die than be forced into a Nazi Officer’s Club!’ Director André De Toth’s 1944 wartime film None Shall Escape was the first to depict the horrors of the Holocaust and harsh realities […]

Sep, 04

Andy Hardy Comes Home ** (1958, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Patricia Breslin, Sara Haden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7360

Director Howard W Koch’s 1958 Andy Hardy Comes Home is a rather sad, belated, out-of-time sequel to the Thirties and Forties Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), filmed a decade too late, with a 40-something Andy Hardy […]

Jul, 28

Sea Wife ** (1957, Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant) – Classic Movie Review 7318

‘One of the Most Challenging Stories of Faith Ever Told!’ Well, that was the plan, but things did not quite turn out like that. Director Bob McNaught’s 1957 British romantic drama Sea Wife stars Richard […]

Jul, 20

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