Derek Winnert

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The Night of January 16th ** (1941, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,797

Director William Clemens’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white mystery crime drama B-movie The Night of January 16th stars Ellen Drew as secretary Kit Lane who is actually the brunt of an embezzlement scam involving […]

Jan, 16

Anna Christie *** (1923, Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F Marion, Eugénie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 10,679

‘I Think I’ll be Killin’ you Now!’ Director John Griffith Wray’s 1923 Anna Christie is the greatly admired silent movie version of Nobel prize-winner Eugene O’Neill’s hard-going 1921 play about the romance of the seaside […]

Dec, 18

Rookery Nook [One Embarrassing Night] **** (1930, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare, Mary Brough) – Classic Movie Review 10,609

The hit series of film adaptations of the Aldwych Farces began with the big box office hit Rookery Nook in 1930 and ran throughout the Thirties. Rookery Nook was the first London theatre Aldwych farce, […]

Dec, 01

Turkey Time *** (1933, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Dorothy Hyson, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 10,608

The London Aldwych Theatre farce acting trio of Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare are back for director Tom Walls’s 1933 black and white British farce Turkey Time from the expert Ben Travers. It […]

Dec, 01

Way Down East ** (1935, Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville) – Classic Movie Review 10,380

Director Henry King’s 1935 Way Down East is a mostly dull and soppy Fox Studio sound version remake of D W Griffith’s famous 1920 silent melodrama Way Down East about a done-wrong-by young woman called […]

Oct, 04

The Corn Is Green *** (1979, Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 10,371

Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]

Oct, 01

Much Ado About Nothing *** (1993, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Briers, Michael Keaton, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 10,317

Writer-director Kenneth Branagh again brings William Shakespeare to mainstream audiences with his 1993 hit adaptation of hit Much Ado About Nothing. It is a very jovial romp through Shakespeare’s attractive lightweight romance, filmed with much […]

Sep, 17

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