Derek Winnert

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Quiet Please: Murder **** (1942, George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9871  

Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book…  Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]

Jun, 06

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library **** (1984, Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 9607

Silvio Narizzano’s 1984 three-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Body in the Library stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her first case as the BBC’s Miss Marple in a UK TV series that filmed all […]

Apr, 06

Miranda * (2002, Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle MacLachlan, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 9368

Christina Ricci stars as young con woman Miranda, who walks into the life of British northern librarian Frank (John Simm) and true love blooms. But then Ricci’s partner Christian (John Hurt) and victim Nailor (Kyle MacLachlan) […]

Feb, 11

The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse] *** (1961, Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi, Lex Barker, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 6942

Director Harald Reinl’s 1961 black-and-white crime thriller The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse], made in West Berlin, follows Fritz Lang’s The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] (1960) as the […]

Apr, 18

Zardoz *** (1974, Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, John Alderton, Bosco Hogan, Sara Kestelman) – Classic Movie Review 5000

Writer-producer-director John Boorman’s ambitious and fascinating 1974 Irish-American sci-fi fantasy film is certainly visually impressive looking in Geoffrey Unsworth’s widescreen cinematography and Anthony Pratt’s production designs. It is a peculiar and arty film, the product […]

Feb, 05

You’re a Big Boy Now **** (1967, Peter Kastner, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Karen Black, Julie Harris, Tony Bill) – Classic Movie Review 4706

Writer-director Francis Ford Coppola’s welcome 1967 New York comedy You’re a Big Boy Now is delightfully quirky and amusing. Peter Kastner stars as innocent, over-cossetted 19-year-old virgin Bernard Chanticleer (Kastner), called Big Boy by his parents, […]

Nov, 26

Desk Set *** (1957, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 3855

Director Walter Lang’s 1957 movie of a worked-over Broadway hit play is very enjoyable even if it seems a slight disappointment from the great star team of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy stars in Desk […]

Jun, 13

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