Derek Winnert

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Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate (1978, Christopher Neil, Arthur Mullard, Anna Quayle, Stephen Lewis, Nina West, William Rushton, Christopher Biggins) – Classic Movie Review 10,411

‘He’s always on call for this sort of job!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1978 Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate is the third of three turgid Seventies British sex comedies, in the Confessions of… style, with […]

Oct, 14

Super Mario Bros ** (1993, Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fiona Shaw, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 10,019

Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel’s 1993 family adventure comedy Super Mario Bros is an ingenious but often dull film of the Nintendo video game, with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario Mario and […]

Jul, 09

Top Secret [Mr Potts Goes to Moscow] *** (1952, George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk, Wilfrid Hyde White, Ronald Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6004

Producer-director Mario Zampi ensures that madcap satirical comedy ensues when double-dealing Russian Communists seize English government research plant plumber/ sanitary engineer Mr Potts (George Cole) who has gone on holiday to Moscow with vital secret plans […]

Aug, 30

Next Stop Wonderland ***½ (1998, Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Holland Taylor, Robert Klein, Cara Buono, José Zúñiga) – Classic Movie Review 4082

The advertising tells you most of what you need to know about co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s appealing, nicely acted 1998 romantic comedy drama: ‘Dating is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re going […]

Aug, 13

Cluny Brown **** (1946, Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 2634

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]

Jun, 23

Carry On Cowboy **** (1966, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas, Peter Butterworth, Bernard Bresslaw) – Classic Movie Review 1910

Director Gerald Thomas’s affectionate 1965 Western spoof Carry On Cowboy is one of the best, funniest and most ambitious of the series, with the director, producer Peter Rogers, writer Talbot Rothwell and the whole Carry […]

Dec, 03

His Lordship *** (1932, dir Michael Powell) – Classic Movie Review 1258

Director Michael Powell’s eighth film, made in 1932 when he was an unknown director, is a musical comedy with a surprisingly complex plot about Bert Gibbs (Jerry Verno), a cheery Cockney plumber who is also […]

May, 26

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