Derek Winnert

Reviews

Parnell * (1937, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edmund Gwenn, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, Donald Crisp, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 11,127

‘The romance that rocked the foundations of an empire…. now lives on the screen!’ Director John M Stahl’s 1937 black and white historical romantic drama Parnell is a tedious, misbegotten biopic of Charles Stewart Parnell, […]

Apr, 22

The Young Lovers * (1964, Peter Fonda, Sharon Hugueny, Nick Adams, Deborah Walley) – Classic Movie Review 11,126

Producer-director Samuel Goldwyn Jr’s 1964 black and white romance film The Young Lovers is a feeble, over-familiar college drama, though amiable young Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny try to make us care about a pair […]

Apr, 22

The Young Americans * (1993, Harvey Keitel, Iain Glen, John Wood, Terence Rigby) – Classic Movie Review 11,125

‘London Is Not Only Losing Her Soul To The Americans, She’s Selling It.’ Co-writer /director Danny Cannon’s 1993 unpersuasive British police thriller The Young Americans stars Harvey Keitel as hardened New York Police Detective John […]

Apr, 22

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man **** (1939, W C Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 11,124

W C Fields stars as seedy circus owner Larson E Whipsnade: ‘Why, some of my best friends are snakes’…  The often extremely funny 1939 black and white madcap screwball comedy You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man […]

Apr, 22

You Can’t Have Everything **** (1937, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tony Martin) – Classic Movie Review 11,123

Director Norman Taurog’s 1937 all-time classic musical You Can’t Have Everything is an infectiously happy, bright and snazzy 20th Century Fox black and white film, in which starving playwright Judith ‘Judy’ Wells (Alice Faye), a […]

Apr, 21

You and Me **** (1938, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Harry Carey Sr, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 11,122

Director Fritz Lang’s 1938 black and white film noir crime romance You and Me stars Sylvia Sidney and George Raft, along with Harry Carey Sr, Barton MacLane, Warren Hymer, Roscoe Karns, George E Stone and […]

Apr, 21

Worm’s Eye View ** (1951, Ronald Shiner, Garry Marsh, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 11,121

In 1951 things were starting to look up for the 20-year-old former Rank Charm School starlet Diana Dors, whose fee was £250 as the female lead supporting Ronald Shiner in director Jack Raymond’s 1951 comedy […]

Apr, 21

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