Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "post war"

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The Devil Makes Three ** (1952, Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 10,603

Director Andrew Marton’s 1952 MGM black and white thriller The Devil Makes Three stars Gene Kelly, who enjoys a straight acting role as American pilot Captain Jeff Eliot, a US serviceman who stumbles across a […]

Nov, 29

The Night My Number Came Up **** (1955, Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 8507

A military transport aircraft’s flight from Hong Kong to Japan starts to bear a startling similarity to one of the passenger’s bad dreams, which had ended with a plane crash. Michael Redgrave stars as the […]

May, 28

Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] ***** (1948, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne) – Classic Movie Review 7541

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1947 Italian neo-realist masterpiece classic drama Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] is a horrific portrait of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, as experienced by a 12-year-old lad (Edmund […]

Sep, 04

Three Comrades **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 6695

F Scott Fitzgerald gains his only scriptwriter credit during his stay at MGM (though he also worked on A Yank at Oxford and The Women) for his adaptation (along with Edward E Paramore Jr) of […]

Feb, 15

Plenty *** (1985, Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Ian McKellen, André Maranne, Bert Kwouk) – Classic Movie Review 6377

Meryl Streep heads an outstanding cast in Fred Schepisi’s 1985 film of the David Hare play about Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman whose work for the French resistance in World War Two eclipses all of her […]

Dec, 09

Caccia Tragica **** (1947, Massimo Girotti, Carla Del Paggio, Andrea Checchi, Vivi Gioi) – Classic Movie Review 5263

a Co-writer/ director Giuseppe De Santis’s beautifully made, carefully scripted 1947 Italian melodrama is a semi-classic, with imaginative camerawork and particularly interesting writing credits. Massimo Girotti and Carla Del Paggio play Michele and Giovanna, who […]

Apr, 08

Les Portes de la Nuit **** (1946, Pierre Brasseur, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 5268

Marcel Carné’s gorgeously atmospheric 1946 French semi-classic film tells a typically doomed love story and is set in the nocturnal, winter Paris of the immediate post-war period. Yves Montand and Raymond Bussières play buddies who […]

Apr, 07

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