Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "London"

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Midnight Lace *** (1960, Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Natasha Parry, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 3,126

The polished 1960 Hitchcock-style thriller film Midnight Lace stars Doris Day, exquisitely gowned by Irene, who was Oscar nominated for Best Color Costume Design. Day plays a terrified married American heiress, threatened by an anonymous […]

Dec, 03

23 Paces to Baker Street *** (1956, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3125

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 suspense thriller is slick and enjoyable if slightly over-extended feeling at 103 minutes. Nigel Balchin adapts the novel by author Philip MacDonald, writer of the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and […]

Dec, 03

Indiscreet **** (1958, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, David Kossoff, Phyllis Calvert, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 3,083

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman put polish on the glitzy 1958 British Technicolor romantic comedy film Indiscreet. Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1958 British-made Technicolor romantic comedy Indiscreet is glitzy fluff, filmed where it is set in London. It finds the ideal […]

Nov, 23

Performance ***** (1970, James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton) – Classic Movie Review 2,990

Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s clever 1970 gender-bender teaser film Performance is a stunning eye-opener and turned out to be a milestone of British cinema with its provocative mix of perverted sex and violence. James […]

Oct, 18

Legend *** (2015, Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton) – Movie Review

Legend offers Tom Hardy an eagerly and exuberantly taken chance for a bravura star turn in twin roles as 1960s identical twin East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray (‘We’re talking about being gangsters, that’s […]

Sep, 09

Blowup [Blow-Up] ***** (1966, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills, Verushka, Peter Bowles, John Castle) – Classic Movie Review 2,836

Michelangelo Antonioni came to London in 1966 to make his multi-layered puzzle thriller film Blowup. David Hemmings plays a modish fashion photographer who pictures blonde Jane Birkin romping around with brunette Gillian Hills. Esteemed Italian […]

Aug, 21

Anti-Social *** (2015, Gregg Sulkin, Meghan Markle, Josh Myers) – Movie Review

Writer-director Reg Traviss’s London gangster thriller is quite exciting, well-constructed and stylish, with some thrillingly staged smash and grab sequences. Gregg Sulkin stars as Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Josh Myers plays his […]

Apr, 29

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