Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "cabaret"

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Too Hot To Handle [Playgirl After Dark] * (1960, Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Sheldon Lawrence, Christopher Lee, Patrick Holt, Barbara Windsor, Danik Patisson) – Classic Movie Review 8423

Jayne Mansfield stars as Midnight Franklin, a nightclub exotic singer-dancer trying to save her boyfriend, London gangland and club boss Johnny Solo (Leo Genn), from an extortion racket when he gets threats for protection at […]

May, 02

I Am a Camera ** (1955, Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 5877

Director Henry Cornelius’s 1955 British drama is a lacklustre, uninspired, disappointing film, especially considering the quality of Christopher Isherwood’s brilliant stories of an Englishman abroad in Weimar-era Thirties Berlin in his classic book Goodbye to […]

Aug, 08

Lola ***** (1961, Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden) – Classic Movie Review 4303

The then inspired young French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) director Jacques Demy’s 1961 debut is not only his first movie but arguably his best film. It is a delightful, still fresh romantic extravaganza. Anouk Aimée, in […]

Sep, 05

Morocco ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4262

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama Morocco stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. It is based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny, though the on-screen credits state ‘From the play […]

Aug, 28

Victor Victoria **** (1982, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1462

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s bubbly and witty 1982 gender-bender musical remake of a 1933 German comedy, Viktor und Viktoria, is huge vivacious fun. It provides an ideal vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews as a struggling female soprano […]

Jul, 22

The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers) – Classic Movie Review 1285

Director Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 beautifully melancholic classic The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] stars his protégé Marlene Dietrich as the alluring nightclub cabaret singer Lola-Lola Frohlich. She marries the fat, fussy but infatuated Professor […]

Jun, 03

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