Derek Winnert

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The White Cliffs of Dover *** (1944, Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, Dame May Whitty, C Aubrey Smith, Elizabeth Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,459

Director Clarence Brown’s poignant, well-made but over-sentimental 1944 tearjerker The White Cliffs of Dover stars Irene Dunne as American heroine Lady Susan Dunn Ashwood, who sits idyllically on the white clifftops of Dover with her […]

Oct, 25

Millions Like Us **** (1943, Gordon Jackson, Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Irene Handl, Moore Marriott, Joy Shelton, Brenda Bruce, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4695

Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s rousing and persuasive 1943 British wartime propaganda drama Millions Like Us centres on the marriage of shy war-worker Celia (Patricia Roc) to young airman Fred (Gordon Jackson). Also featured is […]

Nov, 24

Since You Went Away **** (1944, Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Agnes Moorehead, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Guy Madison, Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Nazimova, Hattie McDaniel) – Classic Movie Review 4573

Director John Cromwell’s lavish, star-studded 1944 tearjerker boasts winning performances from the superb cast and a poignant, fragrant whiff of the wartime mid-Forties. Producer David O Selznick’s patriotic tribute to the American home front during […]

Oct, 31

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