Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Irene Handl"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "Irene Handl".

Doctor in Trouble * (1970, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Harry Secombe, Angela Scoular, Irene Handl, Robert Morley, Simon Dee, Freddie Jones, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 3144

‘Laughs a Minute on the High Seas!’ Alas, Doctor in Trouble is right. Leslie Phillips is back as Dr Tony Burke, who is in love with Ophelia O’Brien (Angela Scoular), who promptly leaves for a […]

Dec, 09

Doctor in Love ** (1960, Michael Craig, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims, Joan Hickson, Virginia Maskell, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl, Fenella Fielding, Nicholas Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 3141

‘TAKE A DEEP BREATH…then laugh your head off at the comedy where the girls are medically chaste’ The rather less charismatic or popular Michael Craig takes over in 1960 from the much-missed series star Dirk […]

Dec, 09

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ***** (1966, David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 2911

Director Karel Reisz’s modishly trendy razzle-dazzle 1966 comedy Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment is another pillar of the Swinging Sixties British New Wave cinema. It’s a lovely, funny, appealing film with irrepressible zest and […]

Sep, 14

The Belles of St Trinian’s ***** (1954, Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Beryl Reid, Joan Sims, Irene Handl) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 2786

Director Frank Launder and producer Sidney Gilliat’s 1954 British comedy classic about the misadventures of cartoonist creator Ronald Searle’s grotty schoolgirls at England’s famously appalling St Trinian’s School for Young Ladies is the original and […]

Aug, 07

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes **** (1970, Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl, Clive Revill, Geneviève Page) – Classic Movie Review 2487

Director Billy Wilder is on great form in his revisionist 1970 British-made tale of the private life of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sleuth, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely […]

May, 16

A French Mistress *** (1960, Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, Agnès Laurent) – Classic Movie Review 2117

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s saucy 1960 comedy A French Mistress stars James Robertson Justice as Robert Martin or ‘Bow Wow’, Cecil Parker as John Crane MA. headmaster of Melbury School, Raymond Huntley as the reverend Edwin Peake, […]

Jan, 26

The Rebel [Call Me Genius] *** (1960, Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 2107

Director Robert Day’s 1960 comedy for the Associated British Picture Corporation is certainly Tony Hancock’s finest hour in the movies, the better of his two star vehicles made at the height of his extraordinary fame, before […]

Jan, 24

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.