Derek Winnert

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The Crowd ***** (1928, Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach) – Classic Movie Review 2586

Producer/co-writer/director King Vidor’s 1928 silent classic stars James Murray, who gives an exceptional performance as John Sims, an ordinary, everyman clerk with a small job in the big city. Eleanor Boardman is stupendous, too, as Mary […]

Jun, 12

Circus * (2000, John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Eddie Izzard) – Classic Movie Review 2535

Director Rob Walker’s violent 2000 crime thriller focuses on the story of a Brighton hit man who is asked to run an old friend’s casino. But first he must carry out one last contract killing. […]

May, 30

The Wind ***** (1928, Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle) – Classic Movie Review 2489

Swedish director Victor Sjöström’s [Seastrom] most famous and finest work, based on the novel by Dorothy Scarborough, is now recognised and hailed as one of the all-time great silent movies. However time is on its side: […]

May, 16

Cat People ***** (1942, Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2463

‘She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!’ and ‘ The strangest story you ever tried to get out of your dreams!’ screamed the posters. Director Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 cult horror classic […]

May, 08

The Best Years of Our Lives ***** (1946, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2437

Director William Wyler’s 1946 triumph The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It also won the 1947 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the 1948 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Apr, 30

A Letter to Three Wives **** (1949, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Barbara Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 2416

Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Cleopatra) won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his work on this delightful 1949 suburban satire, examining the thorny question of husband and wife relationships.  […]

Apr, 21

Monsieur Verdoux **** (1947, Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Mady Correll) – Classic Movie Review 2409

Orson Welles approached Charles Chaplin with the idea of Chaplin starring in a film based on the celebrated French murderer, Bluebeard Henri Landru. Chaplin dropped out of Welles’s project but soon thought the story would […]

Apr, 19

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