Derek Winnert

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Vanity Fair ** (1932, Myrna Loy, Conway Tearle, Barbara Kent, Montagu Love, Anthony Bushell) – Classic Movie Review 11,268

Myrna Loy appears in her first starring role in director Chester M Franklin’s 1932 black and white romantic drama Vanity Fair, an early sound ‘modern version’ adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s famous 1848 classic novel. […]

Jun, 04

Adam Had Four Sons *** (1941, Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 10,535

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1941 black and white Columbia Pictures family saga film Adam Had Four Sons is a classy romantic melodrama that switches from humour to tears, and from seduction to betrayal within moments. Warner […]

Nov, 13

Blanche Fury *** (1948, Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 10,150

Director Marc Allégret’s 1948 British film Blanche Fury is a handsome-looking, rather Gothic Victorian-style romantic melodrama about a governess Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) who, at the bidding of her rich uncle Simon (Walter Fitzgerald), marries […]

Aug, 08

East of Sudan ** (1964, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter, Johnny Sekka) – Classic Movie Review 9273

Producer-director Nathan Juran’s 1964 East of Sudan is a simple, familiar, good-looking colonial adventure movie, with stalwart performances from Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter and Johnny Sekka, who help to make it […]

Jan, 17

The Chalk Garden **** (1964, Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 8653

Edith Evans triumphs as old lady Mrs St Maugham, and the witty 1964 British drama film The Chalk Garden is an affecting and appealing experience.  Director Ronald Neame’s gloomy but witty 1964 British drama The […]

Jun, 29

North West Frontier [Flame Over India] **** (1959, Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Ursula Jeans, Wilfrid Hyde White, I S Johar, Eugene Deckers, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7762

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1959 British adventure North West Frontier [Flame Over India] stars Kenneth More as dashing, British army hero Captain William Charles Willoughby Scott, who is asked to take away an Indian Hindu […]

Nov, 08

The Youngest Profession *** (1943, Virginia Weidler, Jean Porter, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Agnes Moorehead, Ann Ayars, Marta Linden, Dick Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 6564

Director Edward Buzzell’s pleasant 1943 movie-business-based romantic comedy is based on a book by Lillian Day. Virginia Weidler and Jean Porter star as autograph-hunting young friends Joan Lyons and Patricia Drew, who wander around the […]

Jan, 15

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