Derek Winnert

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The Dance of Life *** (1929, Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier) – Classic Movie Review 11,253

Directors John Cromwell and A Edward Sutherland’s all-talking musical romantic drama The Dance of Life (1929) from Paramount Pictures is the first of three film adaptations of the popular 1927 Broadway play Burlesque by George […]

May, 30

Murder at the Windmill [Mystery at the Burlesque] *** (1949, Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey, Jon Pertwee, Diana Decker, Jimmy Edwards, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 11,049

Writer-director Val Guest’s 1949 black and white British crime thriller Murder at the Windmill [Mystery at the Burlesque] is an early production by Nat Cohen, and stars Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey and Jon Pertwee, and […]

Mar, 27

It’s Love Again **** (1936, Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale) – Classic Movie Review 10,498

The 1936 British musical film It’s Love Again is a splendid vehicle for the effervescent Jessie Matthews as an ambitious chorus girl masquerading as a rich big-game hunter to boost her showbiz career. Director Victor […]

Nov, 04

Hanussen **** (1988, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági) – Classic Movie Review 9349

Director István Szabó’s 1988 historical drama Hanussen stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who shines again as the Austrian soldier Klaus Schneider, who gains second sight after a bullet hits his head in World War One, in […]

Feb, 05

Mephisto ***** (1981, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági) – Classic Movie Review 9348

Director István Szabó’s 1981 Mephisto stars Klaus Maria Brandauer, who gives a tour-de-force performance in this 1981 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner about a leftist 1920s German theatre actor, Hendrik Hoefgren (famous for his playing […]

Feb, 05

Noises Off… ** (1992, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 8889

Writer Michael Frayn’s hilarious West End and Broadway stage farce about the disasters that befall an inept travelling repertory theatre company putting on an English sex farce show (Nothing On) becomes director Peter Bogdanovich’s stagey, […]

Sep, 09

A Man of No Importance **** (1994, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8,763

Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker and Michael Gambon star in the 1994 comedy drama film A Man of No Importance. Finney plays a closeted gay bus conductor in Dublin in 1963 who puts on Oscar Wilde […]

Jul, 27

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