Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "19th century"

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Kim **** (1950, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 11,171

MGM’s 1950 Technicolor film Kim is a spectacular adventure classic based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel about an orphan boy (Dean Stockwell), recruited as a spy by the British for derring-do in 1880s India. Director Victor […]

May, 06

The Treasure of Monte Cristo ** (1961, Rory Calhoun, Patricia Bredin, John Gregson, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 11,005

‘Terror, Treachery and Treasure!’ Directors Robert S Baker and Monty Berman’s 1961 Eastmancolor and Dyaliscope adventure The Treasure of Monte Cristo [The Secret of Monte Cristo] is a British variation on the Alexandre Dumas tale […]

Mar, 09

Comrades **** (1986, Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman) – Classic Movie Review 10,965

Director Bill Douglas’s 1986 British historical drama Comrades is a humane and spectacular epic account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the six Dorset agricultural workers who were transported to Australia in 1834 for trying to found […]

Feb, 26

The Flesh and the Fiends [Mania] *** (1960, Peter Cushing, June Laverick, George Rose, Donald Pleasence, Renée Houston, Billie Whitelaw, Dermot Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 10,872

Peter Cushing stars in The Flesh and the Fiends as medical doctor Robert Knox who buys human corpses for research from the real-life murderous Burke (George Rose) and Hare (Donald Pleasence) in 1828 Edinburgh. ‘A […]

Feb, 03

The Face at the Window *** (1939, Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu) – Classic Movie Review 10,866

Producer-director George King’s 1939 thriller The Face at the Window stars Tod Slaughter at his most succulently barnstorming as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo in a 19th-century tale of an 1880 Paris deranged killer who keeps […]

Feb, 02

Stars and Stripes Forever [Marching Along] *** (1952, Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Ruth Hussey, Finlay Currie, Roy Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 10,816

Robert Wagner’s studio 20th Century Fox started to give him better roles in 1952. He plays the romantic male lead in Stars and Stripes Forever [Marching Along] (1952), a Technicolor biopic about the composer John […]

Jan, 21

Tap Roots ** (1948, Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor, Ward Bond, Richard Long, Arthur Shields, Griff Barnett) – Classic Movie Review 10,709

Director George Marshall’s 1948 Tap Roots is a bloodless Mississippi-set Civil War romantic drama with Susan Hayward and Van Heflin emoting to little effect as lovers, Southern belle Morna Dabney and Keith Alexander, trying to […]

Dec, 26

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