Derek Winnert

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Change Partners *** (1965, Zena Walker, Basil Henson, Anthony Dawson, Kenneth Cope) – Classic Movie Review 13,290

Zena Walker, Basil Henson, Anthony Dawson, and Kenneth Cope star in the compelling 1965 British Edgar Wallace Mysteries murder thriller Change Partners. Change Partners is a talky and contrived but still really quite enjoyable and […]

Dec, 08

The Lone Wolf in London * (1947, Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders, Eric Blore, Evelyn Ankers) – Classic Movie Review 13,049

The 1947 American mystery crime film The Lone Wolf in London is the last Lone Wolf film starring Gerald Mohr, in which his detective character Michael Lanyard tackles the mystery of missing priceless diamonds.  ‘HOW […]

Aug, 12

A Night Like This *** (1932, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare, Claude Hulbert, Mary Brough) – Classic Movie Review 11,177

Director Tom Walls’s 1932 British black and white comedy A Night Like This is an extremely funny old-style farce, based on a play by Ben Travers, concerning a group of gamblers and the policeman who […]

May, 07

Blackmailed ** (1951, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 9707

A good yarn based on Elizabeth Myers’s novel Mrs Christopher becomes a rather artificial and tame British thriller in 1951 as Blackmailed, but with a good, hard-working cast headed by Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling, […]

May, 03

The Shop at Sly Corner *** (1947, Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8482

Oskar Homolka has a field day playing Desius Heiss, an antique dealer with a secret criminal past, who is ready to kill to save his beautiful violin-playing daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), in director George King’s […]

May, 18

Friday the Thirteenth **** (1933, Jessie Matthews, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn, Sonnie Hale, Max Miller, Emlyn Williams, Ralph Richardson, Mary Jerrold, Robertson Hare, Martita Hunt, Cyril Smith, Muriel Aked) – Classic Movie Review 8,280

The 1933 British portmanteau drama film Friday the Thirteenth stars Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Ralph Richardson, Max Miller, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn, and Robertson Hare, and depicts the lives of passengers before being involved in […]

Mar, 22

Man of the World ** (1931, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 6710

In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]

Feb, 19

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