Derek Winnert

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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors *** (1991, Joan Hickson, Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Faith Brook, David Horovitch) – Classic Movie Review 9,640

Shots are fired in a darkened room in the lively, inventive and unusual 1991 TV movie Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors. Joan Hickson takes on her eleventh case as the BBC’s detective Miss […]

Apr, 16

Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] *** (1937, Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton, Jean Cadell) – Classic Movie Review 9633

Director Rowland V Lee’s 1937 thriller Love from a Stranger [A Night of Terror] is the original, and far better, British version of Agatha Christie’s short story Philomel Cottage, before an American remake ten years […]

Apr, 13

Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) – Classic Movie Review 9,632

The inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who investigates her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it […]

Apr, 13

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 9,629

The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her sixth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the 1976 novel by Agatha Christie.  Director John Davies’s 1987 […]

Apr, 12

Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Caroline Blakiston, James Cossins, Joan Greenwood, George Baker, Helena Michell) – Classic Movie Review 9,627

The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel again stars Joan Hickson, who tackles her seventh case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s 1965 novel. The sleuth finds fake identity, larceny […]

Apr, 11

Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye *** (1985, Joan Hickson, Timothy West, Fabia Drake) – Classic Movie Review 9,622

The 1985 TV movie Miss Marple: A Pocketful of Rye again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fourth case as the BBC’s detective Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie.  Director Guy […]

Apr, 09

Mix Me a Person ** (1962, Anne Baxter, Donald Sinden, Adam Faith) – Classic Movie Review 9613

Young Adam Faith (aged 22) stars as Harry Jukes, who is unjustly convicted of a cop killing, but finds a champion in his lawyer Philip Bellamy QC (Donald Sinden)’s wife, psychiatrist Dr Anne Dyson (Anne […]

Apr, 07

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