Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "railway"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "railway".

The Desert Song *** (1943, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 5738

Director Robert Florey’s 1943 musical movie The Desert Song is an antique show, but the fine, on-form cast of Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Victor Francen, Faye Emerson and Marcel […]

Jul, 09

The Ghost Train *** (1931, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ann Todd) – Classic Movie Review 5163

Director Walter Forde’s original 1931 The Ghost Train is the second version (after a 1927 silent) of playwright Arnold Ridley’s classic stage farcical thriller about stranded travellers, a detective in disguise and smugglers at a […]

Mar, 16

The Ghost Train **** (1941, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Morland Graham, Herbert Lomas, Linden Travers, George Merritt) – Classic Movie Review 5162

Ten years on in 1941, director Walter Forde gets to remake his own great 1931 comedy movie success The Ghost Train, based on playwright Arnold Ridley’s vintage stage play, now polished up as a vehicle […]

Mar, 15

Train of Events *** (1949, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Peter Finch, Irina Baronova, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan, Joan Dowling, Laurence Payne, Mary Morris, John Gregson, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 4,593

Ealing Studios’ 1949 British portmanteau film flashes back to reveal four of the passengers’ stories as a London to Liverpool-bound train heads for a crash into a stalled petrol tanker at a level crossing. Ealing […]

Nov, 05

Rome Express ***** (1932, Conrad Veidt, Gordon Harker, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Vosper, Hugh Williams, Muriel Aked, Donald Calthrop, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 4023

The silky Conrad Veidt effortlessly steals the 1932 British thriller film Rome Express as Zurta, a mysterious professional criminal who organised an art theft.  Director Walter Forde’s tremendous 1932 movie Rome Express is a classic […]

Jul, 14

The Ghost and the Darkness *** (1996, Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 3701

In this unbelievably old-fashioned 19th-century-set 1996 adventure movie, you expect to find both Tarzan and Allan Quatermain, since it seems to owe much to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Rider Haggard as to any true story […]

May, 12

The Iron Horse ***** (1924, George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull) – Classic Movie Review 2503

This splendid 1924 classic silent Western from the Fox Film Company and the already expert young director John Ford virtually invented the vocabulary of the genre. The characters’ lives are set against the background of […]

May, 20

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.