Derek Winnert

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Ruby Gentry **** (1952, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 3976

Director King Vidor’s 1952 all-action romantic drama is brilliantly kitsch and preposterous, just bursting with enjoyably over-heated Fifties-style intrigue, sex and violence. It is an unkind label, but it is a trash classic. Jennifer Jones stars […]

Jul, 05

Vampyr [Castle of Doom] ***** (1932, Julian West, Henriette Gérard, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel) – Classic Movie Review 3513

Danish co-writer/ producer/ director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s creepy and compelling first sound film from 1932 tells the haunting tale of a callow, supernatural-obsessed drifter called Allan Gray (Julian West), who arrives by night at a lonely secluded […]

Apr, 02

The Spider Woman Strikes Back *** (1946, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Kirby Grant, Hobart Cavanaugh) – Classic Movie Review 3446

This 1946 in-name-only sequel film sees Gale Sondergaard re-creating her popular role from 1944’s The Spider Woman. But this horror thriller follow-up has no relation to the original, with Sondergaard playing a completely different character.  […]

Mar, 04

Mrs Brown **** (1997, Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Gerard Butler, Richard Pasco, Antony Sher, Finty Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2979

In a majestic stroke of casting, Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly form a brilliant double act as Queen Victoria and John Brown, her loyal Scottish Highland gillie, summoned down from Balmoral to walk the […]

Oct, 12

Wuthering Heights ***** (1939, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Hugh Williams, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 2959

Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s perennially enchanting classic yarn is splendidly romantic, atmospheric and rousing. It stars the lustrous Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the […]

Oct, 05

The Ghoul **** (1933, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Ralph Richardson, Kathleen Harrison, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 2,905

‘From the Depths of the Earth, He Will Rise.’ Boris Karloff returns in triumph to his home country for the great eerie fun 1933 British black and white horror movie The Ghoul. ‘An Ancient Curse […]

Sep, 12

La Règle du Jeu [The Rules of the Game] ***** (1939, Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Julien Carette, Paulette Dubost, Roland Toutain) – Classic Movie Review 2791

Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s famous great 1939 French world cinema classic is a poignant, penetrating social comedy set in a grand chateau in the country in France at the onset of World War Two. Guests arrive […]

Aug, 08

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