Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "scotland"

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The Man from Planet X **** (1951, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 8234

The 1951 film The Man from Planet X is a surprisingly intelligent, imaginative and entertaining sci-fi horror movie adventure, shot in only a week (or six working days) by the globetrotting, prolific B-movie director Edgar […]

Mar, 12

Confessions of a Nazi Spy ***½ (1939, Edward G Robinson, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas, George Sanders, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8,023

Warner Brothers take on the Hun in director Anatole Litvak’s 1939 American spy political thriller film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a timely exposé of Nazis at work in America just before the Second World […]

Jan, 16

The Edge of the World **** (1937, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Finlay Currie, Eric Berry ) – Classic Movie Review 7907

Writer-director Michael Powell puts heart and soul into The Edge of the World, his deeply felt and involving 1937 black and white film about life on Hirta, a bleak, remote Shetland Island, an Outer Hebridean […]

Dec, 15

Mary, Queen of Scots ** (1971, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, Nigel Davenport, Daniel Massey, Ian Holm, Timothy Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 7901

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots is worth a look for the heavyweight actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson in their prime, if not quite at their peak, and for the various star […]

Dec, 13

Mary Queen of Scots ** (2018, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Adrian Lester, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, David Tennant) – Movie Review

Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]

Dec, 13

The Bridal Path ** (1959, Bill Travers, Bernadette O’Farrell, George Cole, Duncan Macrae, Gordon Jackson, Patricia Bredin, Fiona Clyne) – Classic Movie Review 7301

Bill Travers stars in director Frank Launder’s 1959 British comedy The Bridal Path as rough-and-ready young Scottish islander Ewan McEwan, who heads off to the mainland to find a perfect bride, but along the bridal path […]

Jul, 16

The Master of Ballantrae **** (1953, Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Felix Aylmer, Yvonne Furneaux, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 7279

Director William Keighley’s rousing British made 1953 Warner Bros movie The Master of Ballantrae stars Errol Flynn, who swashbuckles one more time in a totally rewritten and truncated version of the classic 1889 Robert Louis […]

Jul, 11

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