Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Norman Bird"

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Whistle Down the Wind ***** (1961, Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 2424

Hayley Mills leads a group of three kids who find a fugitive from justice (Alan Bates) in Whistle Down the Wind. Bryan Forbes’s beautifully crafted first film as director is full of memorable performances and […]

Apr, 24

The Hill **** (1965, Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear, Michael Redgrave, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 2114

Director Sidney Lumet’s distinguished, brutal 1965 military drama The Hill is a showcase for tour de force acting from Sean Connery as Joe Roberts, one of the five new prisoners being punished in a British […]

Jan, 25

The Angry Silence **** (1960, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke) – Classic Movie Review 2111

Director Guy Green’s 1960 drama The Angry Silence is a refreshingly bracing, grown-up and engrossing thought piece that finds the 1960 British cinema in a surprisingly serious frame of mind in a story that tackles […]

Jan, 24

The Punch and Judy Man *** (1963, Tony Hancock, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Fraser, John le Mesurier, Hugh Lloyd, Barbara Murray) – Classic Movie Review 2106

Director Jeremy Summers’s 1963 British black and white comedy The Punch and Judy Man finds Tony Hancock leaving his comfort zone safety of East Cheam, the location of his mega-hit radio and TV show Hancock’s Half […]

Jan, 23

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