Derek Winnert

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Born Yesterday ***** (1950, Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 1307

Director George Cukor’s 1950 comedy classic stars the scintillating Judy Holliday, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Billie Dawn, the delightfully ditzy showgirl mistress of brash and boorish millionaire junk-metal dealer Harry Brock (Broderick […]

Jun, 08

Sherlock Holmes in Washington *** (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco, John Archer, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 1,021

The World War Two-set 1943 mystery adventure film Sherlock Holmes in Washington sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson travelling to Washington DC to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy […]

Mar, 30

Being There ***** (1979, Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 819

Director Hal Ashby’s extremely witty and deliciously satirical 1979 black-comedy gives Peter Sellers a wonderful chance to create a serious character in his penultimate film as an illiterate, TV-mad (‘I like to watch’), simple gardener […]

Feb, 09

Minority Report **** (2002, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) – Classic Movie Review 484

Tom Cruise teams up with director Steven Spielberg in 2002 to play a ‘precognitive’ cop of the future, Detective John Anderton, who can predict murders and arrest the killers before they act. But then he’s […]

Dec, 07

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