Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

It’s Love I’m After **** (1937, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 6904

Director Archie Mayo’s frothy 1937 Warner Bros screwball comedy stars the exciting, formidable vintage team of Bette Davis, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland, and is based on the original story Gentlemen after Midnight by […]

Apr, 08 · in Reviews

You Can’t Get Away with Murder ** (1939, Humphrey Bogart, Billy Halop, Gale Page, John Litel, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 6903

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1939 B-movie crime drama for Warner Bros stars Humphrey Bogart as petty hoodlum Frank Wilson, who is a bad influence on troubled teenager Johnnie Stone (Billy Halop, of the Dead End Kids). […]

Apr, 08 · in Uncategorized

The Big Shot *** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6,902

The entertaining 1942 film noir crime thriller The Big Shot is a now forgotten assembly-line movie for Humphrey Bogart, who stars as crime boss Duke Berne, put on trial after a mistake on an identity […]

Apr, 08

The Big Shakedown *** (1934, Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6901

Director John Francis Dillon’s 1934 crime drama stars Bette Davis as platinum blonde Norma Frank, a pharmacy clerk who wants to shake off her pharmacist husband Jimmy (Charles Farrell) when he is duped into joining […]

Apr, 08

Housewife * (1934, George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday) – Classic Movie Review 6900

Director Alfred E Green’s shaky, corny and unconvincing 1934 melodrama of romantic rivalry stars Bette Davis as blonde bombshell advertising copywriter Patricia Berkeley, who tries to vamp her co-worker and old lover William ‘Bill’ Reynolds […]

Apr, 08

HouseSitter *** (1992, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 6899

Director Frank Oz’s 1992 fantasy romantic comedy HouseSitter is uneven, but it is always an amiable and inoffensive entertainment, and in its best stretches it is very funny. Steve Martin stars as Newton Davis, a […]

Apr, 08

L A Story *** (1991, Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E Grant ) – Classic Movie Review 6898

Director Mick Jackson’s funny and charming 1991 movie finds Steve Martin in romantic comedy mood with a sweet love poem to Los Angeles and his then British wife Victoria Tennant. He must have got it […]

Apr, 08

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