Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "opera house"

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The Glass Mountain **** (1949, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 6275

Director Henry Cass’s poignant popular 1949 love story romantic drama stars Michael Denison as the married English composer Richard Wilder, who is moved to write an opera by two of Italy’s greatest delights – the […]

Nov, 20

Charlie Chan at the Opera **** (1936, Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 5614

‘A fiendish killer lurks at the opera! Weird! Thrilling! The Master Minds of Crime Match Wits Against Each Other!’ Sounds good, doesn’t it? And director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1936 thriller is one of the best […]

Jun, 15

Fitzcarraldo ***** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy) – Classic Movie Review 4459

The great Klaus Kinski stars in the role he was born for – the real-life turn-of-the-last-century mad Irishman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan was to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle […]

Oct, 05

The Phantom of the Opera **** (1962, Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 389

‘BENEATH HIS MASK… the Grotesque Face of Horror Unimaginable! INSIDE HIS HEART… the Desperate Desire for Beauty and Love!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1962 British remake of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is […]

Nov, 10

The Phantom of the Opera ***** (1925, Lon Chaney Sr, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry) – Classic Movie Review 75

‘If you love me as you say you do, will you let me go? I promise to be your slave forever,’ Christine tells The Phantom. Lon Chaney Snr stars in his most famous role as […]

Jul, 20

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