Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "London Blitz"

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London Can Take It! **** (1940, voice of Quentin Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 9176

London Can Take It! (1940)  is a classic 10-minute documentary from ace British documentarians Humphrey Jennings and Harry Watt on the theme of a tribute to the bravery and resourcefulness of Londoners in the Blitz. […]

Dec, 20

Hope and Glory ***** (1987, Sarah Miles, Susan Wooldridge, Ian Bannen, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Derrick O’Connor, Jean-Marc Barr) – Classic Movie Review 9005

The 1987 British nostalgic wartime comedy drama Hope and Glory is a wonderful, warmest-hearted trip down memory lane as John Boorman writes, produces and directs this semi-autobiographical account of World War Two, as seen through […]

Oct, 22

Till Death Us Do Part [Alf ‘n Family] *** (1968, Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs) – Classic Movie Review 6050

Director Norman Cohen’s 1968 hit comedy is the first spinoff from the hit BBC TV show Till Death Us Do Part. Regular writer Johnny Speight’s original story and screenplay show how the famous London East […]

Sep, 27

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

The End of the Affair **** (1999, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 831

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Feb, 15

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