Derek Winnert

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Quiet Please: Murder **** (1942, George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9871  

Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book…  Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]

Jun, 06

The First of the Few [Spitfire] **** (1942, Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 9384

Lots of exciting aerial sequences, a good dash of sentiment and an appropriately stiff-lipped script help to make Leslie Howard’s 1942 black and white wartime tribute The First of the Few [Spitfire] a thoroughly affecting […]

Feb, 14

Mephisto ***** (1981, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági) – Classic Movie Review 9348

Director István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who gives a tour-de-force performance in this 1981 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner about a leftist 1920s German theatre actor, Hendrik Hoefgren (famous for his playing […]

Feb, 05

A Hidden Life *** (2019, August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon) – Movie Review

‘Better to suffer injustice than to do it.’ Writer-director Terrence Malick’s challenging A Hidden Life (2019) is a noble enterprise, an incredibly sincere spiritual film, told with austerity worthy of Robert Bresson or Maurice Pialat, […]

Jan, 26

Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] **** (1941, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 9160

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] is a tense, exciting, well-meaning, intelligent British wartime propaganda thriller, in which a Nazi-sympathiser actress, Irena Roder (Diana Wynyard), chums up to Hitler in […]

Dec, 15

The Silent Village **** (1943, Villagers of Cwmgiedd) – Classic Movie Review 9153

Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1943 World War Two what if? documentary The Silent Village tells how it could have happened in Wales if there had been similar Nazi atrocities there to those perpetrated in 1942 on […]

Dec, 13

The Odessa File *** (1974, Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell) – Classic Movie Review 9,146

A well-cast Jon Voight scored a big hit in the 1974 Frederick Forsyth thriller film The Odessa File about a German reporter on the trail of neo-Nazis. Director Ronald Neame’s 1974 The Odessa File stars […]

Dec, 11

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