Derek Winnert

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Temptation *** (1946, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas) Classic Movie Review 9918

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 black and white film noir thriller Temptation stars Merle Oberon as bored housewife Ruby, an 1890s London shady lady who moves to Egypt and swaps her dull archaeologist husband Nigel Armine […]

Jun, 16

The First Traveling Saleslady *** (1956, Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing) – Classic Movie Review 9386

The estimable star duo of Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing give a boost to producer-director Arthur Lubin’s eager and amiable 1956 Technicolor comedy Western The First Traveling Saleslady. Though minor, slight and mild, it is […]

Feb, 15

Zarak ** (1956, Victor Mature, Michael Wilding, Anita Ekberg, Bonar Colleano, Eunice Gayson, Finlay Currie, Peter Illing, Yana) – Classic Movie Review 8012

Look what’s on the menu: ‘Pillage! Plunder! Passion! A SENSATION OF EXCITEMENT AND THRILLS!’ [Spoiler alert] An eclectic cast stars in director Terence Young’s interesting if run-of-the-mill 1956 action adventure thriller Zarak, about a British […]

Jan, 14

Love & Friendship ***½ (2016, Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Tom Bennett ) – Movie Review

Writer-director Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. It’s a minor work and it can’t help being a minor film. But Stillman tries all he can and knows to make a success of it, with good, highly civilised, polished results […]

May, 25

Testament of Youth *** (2014, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Hayley Atwell) – Movie Review

Alicia Vikander plays Edwardian British heroine Vera Brittain, who recalls her tempestuous coming of age during World War One in director James Kent’s film version of Vera Brittain’s great memoir of how the First World War affected […]

Jan, 14

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