Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "housekeeper"

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The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253

Richard Dix plays a charming middle-aged artist who starts a relationship with a grasping young artist’s model (Leslie Brooks) while his older wealthy wife (Mary Currier) is suffering heart attacks. Director George Sherman’s effective 1946 […]

Nov, 20

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum **** (1975, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow) – Classic Movie Review 12,876

Angela Winkler stars in the outstanding 1975 West German political drama film The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum [Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum], based on the 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll. The outstanding, valuable, […]

May, 05

Molly and Me *** (1945, Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner) – Classic Movie Review 12,110

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1945 20th Century Fox American comedy film Molly and Me stars Gracie Fields and Monty Woolley, reunited after their 1943 hit Holy Matrimony. The screenplay by Leonard Praskins is based on the […]

May, 10

Céleste *** (1980, Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbert Wartha, Wolf Euba) – Classic Movie Review 11,853

Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German film Céleste tells the story of the final years of the French gay writer Marcel Proust (Jürgen Arndt) through the eyes of his housekeeper.  Writer-director Percy Adlon’s fascinating 1981 German […]

Jan, 17

The Man with a Cloak *** (1951, Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Leslie Caron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 11,390

Director Fletcher Markle’s 1951 MGM black and white Gothic noir thriller The Man with a Cloak is a sleekly made, very unusual and involving 19th-century Manhattan murder mystery propelled along with an excellent cast, including […]

Jul, 15

Parasite [Gisaengchung] **** (2019, Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, So-dam Park, Ji-so Jung) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]

Feb, 10

The Happy Ending *** (1969, Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise, Teresa Wright) – Classic Movie Review 7426

Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s 1969 drama The Happy Ending stars Jean Simmons as a middle-aged American woman who looks back on a long, unhappy marriage as she walks out on her husband and family in order […]

Aug, 11

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