Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "year 1947"

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Privates on Parade *** (1982, John Cleese, Denis Quilley, Michael Elphick, Nicola Pagett, Bruce Payne, Joe Melia) – Classic Movie Review 7306

Director Michael Blakemore’s 1982 British comedy Privates on Parade is a faithful film of a very camp, old-fashioned Seventies stage hit by clever writer Peter Nichols, drawing on his own 1947 Malayan emergency experiences with […]

Jul, 18

Who Framed Roger Rabbit **** (1988, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Stubby Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 4,557

Live actors join the cartoon world of Toon Town as warm and jovial performances by Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd provide the human dimension for Robert Zemeckis’s exuberant and technically perfect 1988 film Who Framed […]

Oct, 29

A Private Function **** (1984, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 4066

Director Malcolm Mowbray’s delightful 1984 comedy film realises Alan Bennett’s highly amusing pig tale about a late-1940s Northern England doctor’s family who raise an illegal porker and fatten it up for a royal wedding banquet. […]

Jul, 22

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