Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "inheritance"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "inheritance".

Chase a Crooked Shadow *** (1958, Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom, Faith Brook, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 13,238

Michael Anderson’s playful 1958 British suspense thriller film Chase a Crooked Shadow stars Richard Todd, Anne Baxter and Herbert Lom. Director Michael Anderson’s playful 1958 British black and white suspense thriller film Chase a Crooked […]

Nov, 13

Splitting Heirs * (1993, Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Eric Sykes, Stratford Johns, Brenda Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 11,973

Eric Idle is supposed to be a young man called Tommy cheated out of his inheritance by American-raised impostor Henry (Rick Moranis), with whom he was swapped at birth. So he connives with Moranis’s fiancée […]

Mar, 02

Tillie and Gus **** (1933, W C Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy) – Classic Movie Review 11,463

Director Francis Martin’s 1933 American pre-Code comedy film Tillie and Gus stars W C Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop, Phillip Trent, and Clarence Wilson. It is the precious first encounter between spectacular old sourpuss Fields and impressive young […]

Aug, 08

Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

The Shadow of the Cat *** (1961, André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson, Conrad Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,762

A murderous moggy called Tabitha seems to be bumping off those who are benefiting from its rich elderly owner’s untimely death, in Hammer Films’ sinister 1961 British mystery horror thriller film The Shadow of the […]

Jan, 07

Kidnapped *** (1971, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas, Gordon Jackson, Freddie Jones, Jack Watson, Vivien Heilbron) – Classic Movie Review 10,701

‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Great Adventure Story… Now a Monumental Motion Picture!’ Director Delbert Mann’s 1971 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the fourth big movie attempt at the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of adventure and romance – […]

Dec, 23

Oscar and Lucinda ** (1997, Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,629

Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]

Dec, 05

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.