Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Second World War"

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The Night We Dropped a Clanger * (1959, Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn, John Welsh, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 11,486

The 1959 British film The Night We Dropped a Clanger [Make Mine a Double] is a forced and tedious farcical comedy. Brian Rix stars as an Armed Forces lavatory attendant who is mistaken for a […]

Aug, 16

Waterloo Road **** (1945, John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Jean Kent, Beatrice Varley, Alison Leggatt) – Classic Movie Review 6964

Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1945 British black and white wartime romantic drama movie Waterloo Road for Gainsborough Pictures stars John Mills as English soldier Jim Colter, who is called up to fight in World War Two. […]

Apr, 24

Operation Crossbow **** (1965, Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Lilli Palmer, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6449

The star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two wartime adventure movie Operation Crossbow stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay.  Director Michael Anderson’s star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two […]

Dec, 22

Love Lessons [Lust och fägring stor] *** (1995, Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brümssen, Karin Huldt, Nina Gunke) – Classic Movie Review 4571

This sexy 1995 Swedish rites-of-passage erotic drama film outing comes from writer-director Bo Widerberg, with nepotism working well in the form of director’s son Johan Widerberg as Stig, a 15-year old schoolboy aroused by his 37-year old […]

Oct, 31

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

Things to Come **** (1936, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 905

In a future 1940, a 30-year-long global war and a black death plague destroys Everytown. Then in 1970, a band of scientists rebuild it into a great futuristic city. And by 2036, the first pair […]

Mar, 12

Stalingrad – Film Review

Director Fedor Bondarchuk’s 2013 Second World War battle movie is Russia’s first feature in IMAX and 3D formats. The CGI-created battle scenes and sets are just astonishing, though there’s a problem with some of the […]

Feb, 22

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