Derek Winnert

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The Scamp [Strange Affection] *** (1957, Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison, Colin Petersen) – Classic Movie Review 10,861

Director Wolf Rilla’s drama 1957 The Scamp [Strange Affection] is an appealing small-time drama, with Richard Attenborough as kindly school teacher Stephen Leigh, who befriends the eponymous wild character Tod, played by 11-year-old child star Colin […]

Feb, 01

White Noise ** (2005, Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West) – Classic Movie Review 10,752

Director Geoffrey Sax’s 2005 supernatural horror thriller White Noise stars Michael Keaton as successful architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) who lives happily with his wife Anna (Chandra West) until her tragic unexpected death by drowning, […]

Jan, 05

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short **** (1966, Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Hector Camerlynck) – Classic Movie Review 10,718

Director André Delvaux’s 1966 Belgian film The Man Who Had his Hair Cut Short [De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen] stars Senne Rouffaer as a middle-aged law clerk whose obsession with a famous […]

Dec, 28

The Belstone Fox *** (1973, Eric Porter, Jeremy Kemp, Bill Travers, Rachel Roberts, Dennis Waterman, Heather Wright) – Classic Movie Review 10,657

‘When you hunt The Belstone Fox… you hunt HIS way!’ Tragedy results from an act of kindness when an old huntsman called Asher Smith (Eric Porter) raises an orphaned fox cub and a hound together. […]

Dec, 12

Mystery of Edwin Drood *** (1935, Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, E E Clive, Valerie Hobson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,409

Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal studios black and white film Mystery of Edwin Drood is a pleasing, atmospheric, satisfying Victorian England period chiller, successfully based on Charles Dickens’s uncompleted 1870 novel, with Claude Rains enjoying a […]

Oct, 13

Bluebeard *** (1944, John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,322

Director Edgar G Ulmer’s good little 19th-century-set 1944 serial killer horror thriller Bluebeard finds John Carradine on top form as puppeteer Gaston Morel, the Paris portrait-artist and strangler who comes under the spell of a […]

Sep, 18

Proof **** (1991, Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe) – Classic Movie Review 10,033

Writer-director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1991 Proof stars Hugo Weaving as Martin, a blind 30-something photographer who is cared for by housekeeper Celia (Geneviève Picot), who behaves spitefully towards him when he does not return her love. A […]

Jul, 13

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