Derek Winnert

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Brigadoon ***½ (1954, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4690

Director Vincente Minnelli’s sweet 1954 musical stars winsome Gene Kelly and Van Johnson, who play two American tourists who get lost in the Scottish woodlands and stumble across Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that comes […]

Nov, 24

Loch Ness * (1996, Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, Harris Yulin, James Frain, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 4689

Despite all the personable Ted Danson’s valiant efforts as an American scientist investigating the Scottish loch and rumours of Nessie’s existence, director John Henderson’s vapid 1996 British family fantasy romantic comedy-drama never really comes to […]

Nov, 23

Lassie Come Home **** (1943, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Edmund Gwenn, Dame May Whitty, Elsa Lanchester, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4646

Director Fred M Wilcox’s adorable 1943 MGM children’s movie is the original and the sweetest of the film shaggy-dog stories featuring the lovable collie Lassie (played by male dog Pal). In Hugo Butler’s screenplay, based on Eric […]

Nov, 13

Burn Burn Burn ***½ (2015, Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Joe Dempsie, Jack Farthing, Jane Asher, Nigel Planer, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alice Lowe, Sally Phillips, Alison Steadman) – Movie Review

Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey) and Chloe Pirrie star as busom buddies Seph and Alex, who attend the funeral of their best friend Dan (Jack Farthing), who has died of a rare cancer at 29. Dan’s […]

Oct, 21

The Thirty-Nine Steps **** (1978, Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter, David Warner, George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Timothy West) – Classic Movie Review 4,491

Director Don Sharp’s extremely entertaining 1978 third film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps finds its purpose in that it is finally a movie that is faithful to the book and its pre-First World […]

Oct, 19

The 39 Steps *** (1959, Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, James Hayter, Barry Jones, Faith Brook, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 4490

Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel. Hannay goes on the run […]

Oct, 19

The Little Minister *** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3939

The young Katharine Hepburn exudes sprightly charisma in director Richard Wallace’s 1934 RKO film of J M Barrie’s fanciful novel and play about a staid 19th-century Scots minister called the Reverend Gavin Dishart (John Beal). He […]

Jun, 26

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