Derek Winnert

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Thirteen at Dinner *** (1985, Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil, Bill Nighy, Diane Keen, John Stride, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7,207

Peter Ustinov is very welcome back in one of his six appearances as Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, a TV movie version of Christie’s novel Lord Edgware […]

Jun, 22

Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204

Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]

Jun, 21

Peggy Sue Got Married **** (1986, Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 7194

Director Francis Coppola’s lovely 1986 romantic comedy Peggy Sue Got Married was nominated for three Oscars, including one for Kathleen Turner as unhappy middle-aged Peggy Sue, a 43-year-old mother and housewife, who faints when she […]

Jun, 19

Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] **** (2017, Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria) – Movie Review

CUSTODY. First rate: totally gripping, disturbing and credible throughout. French writer-director Xavier Legrand’s engrossing and powerful debut feature comes to UK cinemas on 23 March 2018. Custody [Jusqu’à la garde] is first rate: totally gripping, disturbing, […]

May, 09

The Divorcee *** (1930, Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge) – Classic Movie Review 6818

Norma Shearer won the 1930 Best Actress Oscar as Jerry, a married woman who discovers her newspaper-career husband Ted (Chester Morris) is unfaithful and leaves him to enjoy the same infidelity pleasures as he does. […]

Mar, 18

Mannequin *** (1937, Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Mary Philips) – Classic Movie Review 6798

Director Frank Borzage’s 1937 drama Mannequin is the only pairing of Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy, which is a great shame because they are so good together. Crawford is comfortably cast in her tailor-made regular […]

Mar, 13

Lady Be Good *** (1941, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, John Carroll, Red Skelton, Virginia O’Brien, Dan Dailey) – Classic Movie Review 6791

The 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good stars Eleanor Powell, who dances dazzlingly in Busby Berkeley’s spectacular routine ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, and there is Ann Sothern comfort a-plenty too. Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1941 musical film […]

Mar, 12

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