Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "scotland"

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Restless Natives * (1985, Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 11,716

Director Michael Hoffman’s 1985 film Restless Natives is an embarrassing, would-be quirky comedy about two wayward Scots lads (Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney) from the Wester Hailes district of Edinburgh who take to becoming modern highwaymen […]

Nov, 10

The Queen ***** (2006, Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory) – Classic Movie Review 11,104

Helen Mirren is absolutely brilliant in the title role of Queen Elizabeth II in the vastly entertaining 2006 biographical drama film, sweeping all before her on the way to winning the Academy Award for Best […]

Apr, 17

Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue *** (1953, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 10,988

Director Harold French’s 1953 Technicolor film Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue stars Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, and Michael Gough. It is a box-office flop Walt Disney Productions action adventure set in Scotland […]

Mar, 04

Kidnapped **** (1938, Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, John Carradine, C Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 10,698

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1938 20th Century Fox adventure Kidnapped is the classic vintage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale about a boy, David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew), who is kidnapped and sold as a slave […]

Dec, 23

Soft Top Hard Shoulder *** (1992, Peter Capaldi, Elaine Collins, Jeremy Northam, Richard Wilson, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Catherine Russell, Phyllis Logan) *** Classic Movie Review 10,568

Director Stefan Schwartz’s 1992 comedy Soft Top Hard Shoulder is good middle-brow fun, in the Local Hero style, made with an eagle eye for laughs and arresting images. Peter Capaldi has done himself an enormous […]

Nov, 20

Trouble in the Glen ** (1954, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 9573

Unexpectedly, English director Herbert Wilcox directs Orson Welles as a wealthy South American in a Scottish comedy about a row over a closed road. The 1954 Trouble in the Glen boasts high-powered, if highly improbable […]

Mar, 29

Night Mail ***** (1936, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 9445

Directors Harry Watt and Basil Wright 1936 Night Mail is the stirring and beautiful classic 1930s British documentary short, turning into poetry the apparently mundane subject of the special overnight mail train journey from London to […]

Feb, 29

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