Derek Winnert

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On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] *** (1961, Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White, Kathleen Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8139

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1961 On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] is an enjoyably fun and fairly smart British black and white World War Two wartime farce, made out of its time at the start of the Sixties. […]

Feb, 17

To the Victor ** (1948, Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 7982

Director Delmer Daves’s well-meaning, acceptable 1948 drama To the Victor tells a romantic drama tale of gloom and doom, and stars Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen and Dorothy Malone. Morgan stars as […]

Jan, 05

The Pied Piper *** (1942, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J Carrol Naish Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner ) – Classic Movie Review 7910

Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]

Dec, 16

Faces Places [Visages villages] **** (2017, Agnès Varda, JR) – Movie Review

French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]

Dec, 10

The Big Parade ***** (1925, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7895

Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]

Dec, 08

Sea Devils *** (1953, Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Bryan Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7842

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 romantic historical action adventure drama Sea Devils stars Rock Hudson as Gilliatt, the swashbuckling fisherman cum smuggler who falls for beautiful English spy Drucette (Yvonne De Carlo) and sets her on […]

Nov, 27

The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] *** (1961, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 7765

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1961 The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] is an engagingly old-fashioned romantic rites-of-passage tale by Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden about an English teenage girl called Joss Grey (Susannah York) who falls in […]

Nov, 09

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