Derek Winnert

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Miss Marple:  A Murder Is Announced **** (1985, Joan Hickson, Ursula Howells, Samantha Bond, Sylvia Syms, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 9,616

The when and where of a murder are announced in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette. The 1985 three-episode TV mini-series A Murder Is Announced stars the redoubtable Joan Hickson in her third case as the BBC’s […]

Apr, 08

Kismet *** (1944, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Hugh Herbert, Joy Ann Page, Florence Bates, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7749

The MGM studio’s wonderfully plush and luscious remake of the Edward Knoblock stage yarn is World War Two wartime escapism gone mad, with notable casting in Ronald Colman as the beggar king Hafiz and Jamilla […]

Nov, 03

Lured [Personal Column] **** (1947, Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 5,516

Douglas Sirk’s 1947 film noir serial killer thriller Lured really is a bit of a little gem. It is quite creepy – Lucille Ball as a dancer in danger and lots of old guys, among […]

May, 29

Ladies in Retirement **** (1941, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Isobel Elsom, Edith Barrett, Emma Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4718

Isobel Elsom plays Mrs Leonora Fiske, a wealthy ex-actress, who lives at an isolated house in the East Anglia marshlands in the 1880s with just her younger housekeeper Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino). When Ellen’s two older, […]

Nov, 28

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