Derek Winnert

Reviews

Speaking Parts *** (1989, Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose) – Classic Movie Review 11,184

‘Love – Passion – Obsession’ – Speaking Parts (1989), a film by Atom Egoyan…  The celebrated Canadian Armenian writer/ producer/ director Atom Egoyan’s 1989 Canadian romantic drama film Speaking Parts stars Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian and […]

May, 08

Dirty Little Billy *** (1972, Michael J Pollard, Richard Evans, Lee Purcell) – Classic Movie Review 11,183

Director Stan Dragoti’s 1972 film Dirty Little Billy is a hard-nosed, darkly comedic revisionist Western vehicle for briefly-popular Michael J Pollard (C W Moss in Bonnie and Clyde, a coincidence since this film is written […]

May, 08

A Cup of Kindness ** (1934, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Dorothy Hyson, Claude Hulbert ) – Classic Movie Review 11,180

Director Tom Walls’s 1934 British black and white farcical comedy film A Cup of Kindness is based on a Ben Travers screenplay from his own 1929 Aldwych stage farce that has dated more than some about […]

May, 07

A Night Like This *** (1932, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare, Claude Hulbert, Mary Brough) – Classic Movie Review 11,177

Director Tom Walls’s 1932 British black and white comedy A Night Like This is an extremely funny old-style farce, based on a play by Ben Travers, concerning a group of gamblers and the policeman who […]

May, 07

Dirty Work ** (1934, Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare, Lilian Bond, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 11,176

Director Tom Walls’s flimsy and cobwebby 1934 British black and white crime comedy Dirty Work is a gossamer fine Ben Travers farce with a plot that you could virtually see through if you held it […]

May, 06

Kim **** (1950, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 11,171

MGM’s 1950 Technicolor film Kim is a spectacular adventure classic based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel about an orphan boy (Dean Stockwell), recruited as a spy by the British for derring-do in 1880s India. Director Victor […]

May, 06

Soldiers Three *** (1951, Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,170

Director Tay Garnett’s 1951 MGM black and white film Soldiers Three is a minor-league, though entertaining Gunga Din-style comedy adventure tale, derived from Rudyard Kipling short stories, with Indian location shots from Kim (1950) helping things […]

May, 05

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