Derek Winnert

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The Old Maid ***** (1939, Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Jane Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 2695

Director Edmund Goulding’s weepie 1939 drama is a triumph for Bette Davis, who stars as the sweet Charlotte Lovell, whose illegitimate daughter Tina (Jane Bryan) is raised by her rotten, selfish cousin Delia Lovell (Miriam […]

Jul, 13

The Magdalene Sisters **** (2002, Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone) – Classic Movie Review 2144

Writer-director Peter Mullan’s austere 2002 drama stars Geraldine McEwan, who gives a tour de force as the sadistic Catholic Sister Bridget at a Sixties Irish girls’ institution, a Magdalene Sisters Asylum for young women. There, […]

Feb, 02

Room at the Top **** (1959, Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 1483

Director Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Its star Laurence Harvey may […]

Jul, 27

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