Derek Winnert

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Night Boat to Dublin *** (1946, Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow, Herbert Lom, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton) – Classic Movie Review 9161

Robert Newton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom enliven writer-director Lawrence Huntington’s very brisk and competent, entertaining 1946 British spy thriller Night Boat to Dublin, with a routine plot about an MI5 man, Captain David Grant […]

Dec, 15

The Heroes of Telemark ** (1965, Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Michael Redgrave, Eric Porter) – Classic Movie Review 7464

Director Anthony Mann’s 1965 well-meaning but struggling World War Two Norwegian Resistance movie The Heroes of Telemark stars Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Roy Dotrice, Anton Diffring, Michael Redgrave and Eric Porter. Dr Rolf […]

Aug, 18

Fat Man and Little Boy [Shadow Makers] ** (1989, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia) – Classic Movie Review 7023

Director Roland Joffe (The Mission) tackles a big subject of the making of atomic bombs in his 1989 film drama and comes a cropper. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie R Groves who in 1942 heads […]

May, 09

Hiroshima Mon Amour ***** (1959, Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson) – Classic Movie Review 4885

The debut movie of the all-time great director Alain Resnais is a beautifully crafted gem, with an intelligent, challenging screenplay by Marguerite Duras. Emmanuelle Riva stars as Elle, a French actress who has an affair […]

Jan, 13

Seven Days to Noon **** (1950, Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, André Morell, Joan Hickson, Sheila Manahan, Hugh Cross, Ronald Adam) – Classic Movie Review 4534

Directors John and Roy Boulting’s tense 1950 British suspense thriller tells a concerned and intelligent story about an English atomic scientist Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. He […]

Oct, 25

Notorious ***** (1946, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 233

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 end-of-the-war film noir masterpiece Notorious is one of his finest, most seductive movies. It is a devious twisted love story as much as a thrilling spy story. It all starts with a brilliant, masterly […]

Sep, 09

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