Derek Winnert

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Five Days One Summer **** (1982, Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean, Anna Massey, Gérard Buhr, Sheila Reid) – Classic Movie Review 10,647

Producer-director Fred Zinnemann’s 1982 drama of incestuous love Five Days One Summer is a gorgeous looking 1930s-set Alps soap opera in which ageing, respectable married Dr Douglas Meredith (Sean Connery) and a young lady whom […]

Dec, 11

The Passionate Friends **** (1949, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel Dean) – Classic Movie Review 7087

David Lean’s 1949 film The Passionate Friends is an underrated Brief Encounter-style romantic drama about a woman (Ann Todd) caught between two men – her husband (Claude Rains) and her first love (Trevor Howard). Director […]

May, 22

Swiss Miss ***½ (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Charles Judels, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 6931

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 comedy stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as cheesy mousetrap sellers in the Swiss Alps, who get swindled out of their money by a cheesemaker and become waiters at a […]

Apr, 16

A Cure for Wellness * (2016, Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

It is good to have a horror movie in the mainstream, good to provide stonking great star roles for the always welcome and talented Dane DeHaan and Jason Isaacs, and good to have a great looking movie. That’s […]

Feb, 22

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