Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "world war two"

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The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] **** (1962, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jean Carmet, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 8988

Director Jean Renoir’s 1962 French wartime comedy drama The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] stars Jean-Pierre Cassel as a Parisian corporal, who is captured by the invading Germans and, along with two of […]

Oct, 16

Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939

Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]

Sep, 25

Tawny Pipit *** (1944, Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis) – Classic Movie Review 8634

Bernard Miles co-writes and co-directs (with Charles Saunders) and produces and stars in the 1944 British black and white wartime comedy Tawny Pipit, a gently winsome piece of whimsy about the momentarily near-calamitous events that […]

Jun, 24

Gasbags *** (1941, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox) – Classic Movie Review 8557

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 zany British comedy Gasbags is a wartime slapstick farce from the Crazy Gang, with a fairly imaginative script by the talented Val Guest and Marriott Edgar, the pair who wrote Will […]

Jun, 05

Frieda *** (1947, David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling, Flora Robson, Albert Lieven, Gladys Henson, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 8269

Director Basil Dearden makes an honourable job of the 1947 black and white drama Frieda, a thoughtful Ealing Studios World War Two message story about an RAF pilot officer (David Farrar) who comes back to his […]

Mar, 19

The Next of Kin **** (1942, Mervyn Johns, John Chandos, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8164

Director Thorold Dickinson’s fascinating 1942 British black and white World War Two wartime propaganda thriller, about careless talk costing lives, was expanded by Ealing Studios from an army training film commissioned by the British War […]

Feb, 22

The Halfway House **** (1944, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Alfred Drayton, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 8163

Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]

Feb, 22

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