Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

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Intermezzo: A Love Story **** (1939, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best) – Classic Movie Review 6679

It is time to get your box of handkerchiefs at the ready for director Gregory Ratoff’s irresistibly charming 1939 romantic drama tearjerker that launched the American career of Ingrid Bergman, who had already appeared in […]

Feb, 11

Color Me Dead * (1969, Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason) – Classic Movie Review 6677

Producer-director Eddie Davis’s 1969 Australian remake of the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A. stars Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, an accountant who finds he has taken a slow-working deadly poison and must track down his […]

Feb, 11

Interlude *** (1957, June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay, Keith Andes) – Classic Movie Review 6671

Douglas Sirk directs this heady 1957 four-hankie, majorly tear-jerking romantic melodrama, a remake of the 1939 hit When Tomorrow Comes, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, based on the original story A Modern Cinderella by James M Cain, […]

Feb, 10

The 13th Letter *** (1951, Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay) – Classic Movie Review 6643

What Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller The 13th Letter lacks in subtlety, it makes up for in style.  What producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller remake of Henri-Georges Clouseau’s 1943 French […]

Feb, 02

Disraeli *** (1929, George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Florence Arliss, Joan Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6627

George Arliss and his wife Florence Arliss reprise their roles as Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Lady Beaconsfield from their silent movie Disraeli (1921) in director Alfred E Green’s 1929 remake. Aged 61, ‘Mr’ George Arliss gets a […]

Jan, 30

Dr Syn, Alias the Scarecrow **** (1962, Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton, Geoffrey Keen, Kay Walsh, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 6625

Director James Neilson’s rousing 1962 adventure movie stars Patrick McGoohan, who has great fun as the innocent-looking minister Dr Christopher Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day who turns by night into the notorious […]

Jan, 30

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm *** (1938, Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Bill Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 6604

The 20th Century Fox studio radically changes the Kate Douglas Wiggin story as a musical-comedy-drama vehicle for its child star Shirley Temple as Rebecca Winstead, whose uncle, Henry Kipper (William Demarest), dumps her on her strict […]

Jan, 26

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