Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "museum"

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Song of Surrender **½ (1949, Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey) – Classic Movie Review 12,157

Claude Rains again stars as a tyrant bullying his much younger wife, in the 1949 romantic melodrama Song of Surrender. Director Mitchell Leisen’s slickly played 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic melodrama Song of […]

Jun, 04

The Hideaways [From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler] *** (1973, Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) – Classic Movie Review 10,996

Director Fielder Cook’s 1973 family comedy drama film The Hideaways stars Ingrid Bergman, no less, as Mrs Basil E Frankweiler, a wealthy eccentric cared for by two suburban youngsters Claudia and Jamie (Sally Prager, Johnny […]

Mar, 07

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum *** (1940, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie) – Classic Movie Review 9043

Director Lynn Shores’s 1940 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum is an eerie series entry, set at the eponymous New York Wax Museum presided over by the usual mad scientist. There […]

Nov, 02

The Goldfinch **** (2019, Oakes Fegley, Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Boyd Gaines, Luke Wilson, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard, Jeffrey Wright) – Movie Review

Director John Crowley’s smart 2019 drama The Goldfinch stars Oakes Fegley as a 13-year-old boy, Theo Decker, whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and […]

Sep, 28

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn *** (1956, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery) – Classic Movie Review 8555

Director Joseph Sterling’s 1956 surreal spoof comedy The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn is a precious memento of BBC radio’s The Goon Show, in which Peter Sellers does his deaf and senile character Henry Crun […]

Jun, 04

Mr Moto Takes a Vacation *** (1939, Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 8321

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 20th Century Fox black and white crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Vacation is the eighth and last release in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable casebook, as the oriental detective Mr Moto sets […]

Apr, 01

The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal] ** (1996, Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi) – Classic Movie Review 8156

Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a homicide detective, who unwittingly suffers from the dizzy-making Stendhal Syndrome of the title, battling a serial rapist-killer, in the 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal]. It […]

Feb, 20

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