Derek Winnert

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En Kvinnas Ansikte [A Woman’s Face] *** (1938, Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson) – Classic Movie Review 6075

Ingrid Bergman stars as Anna Holm, a childhood accident victim who has her scarred face rebuilt into a face of beauty in director Gustaf Molander’s original 1938 Swedish film version of the story based on […]

Oct, 11

Uncle Silas *** (1947, Jean Simmons, Derrick De Marney, Katina Paxinou, Derek Bond, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 5700

Jean Simmons stars in the 1947 British locked-room mystery drama Uncle Silas, a properly creepy and eerie film adaptation of the J Sheridan Le Fanu classic chiller novel. Jean Simmons stars in the 1947 British […]

Jul, 03

The Return of the Vampire *** (1943, Bela Lugosi, Matt Willis, Nina Foch, Frieda Inescort, Roland Varno, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 3337

‘Terrifying! Paralyzing! Horrifying!’ Ah, yes! An explosion unearths the coffin of the blood-sucking Armand Tesla (Bela Lugosi) as the German bombs cause death, destruction and chaos in World War Two Blitz-torn London. A cemetery caretaker (George […]

Feb, 07

All This, and Heaven Too **** (1940, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil) – Classic Movie Review 2.741

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 period romantic drama film All This, and Heaven Too provides a gleaming, glorious showcase for Bette Davis, whose hits just came coming in this golden era for her. Charles Boyer provides […]

Jul, 25

Jane Eyre **** (1943, Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2670

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1943 movie is an impressively powerful and moody American version of the Charlotte Brontë classic about the Victorian orphan who becomes a governess in a strange Yorkshire household at Thornfield Hallruled over by […]

Jul, 05

Jane Eyre *** (1996, William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Joan Plowright, Richard Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 2671

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 version of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 classic novel is rather flat, un-dynamic and un-vibrant. Although the film is highly polished and has several redeeming features, including Charlotte Gainsbourg’s stellar performance as Jane […]

Jul, 05

The Unseen *** (1945, Gail Russell, Joel McCrea, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 2278

Director Lewis Allen’s fairly involving, creepy and surprising 1945 chiller is Paramount’s less gripping but still enjoyable follow-up to their previous year’s hit The Uninvited (1944). It reunites the director with star Gail Russell, who this time plays […]

Mar, 18

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