Derek Winnert

Reviews

My Wife’s Lodger *** (1952, Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane, Leslie Dwyer, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 11,120

With the Rank Organisation £18 million in debt, the studio closed their Charm School for young actors and made Diana Dors redundant in September 1950. But Dors’s film career started to improve when she was […]

Apr, 20

The Great Game *** (1953, James Hayter, Diana Dors, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 11,119

Director Maurice Elvey’s 1953 British sports comedy-drama black and white film The Great Game stars James Hayter, Diana Dors, Thora Hird, John Laurie and Glyn Houston. The Great Game is a lively British comedy about a […]

Apr, 20

Corvette Summer *** (1978, Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche) – Classic Movie Review 11,115

Co-writer/ director Matthew Robbins’s 1978 Corvette Summer [The Hot One] was what Mark Hamill was doing when the force wasn’t with him in Star Wars. It was his very next film after the blockbuster that […]

Apr, 19

Hostile Force ** (1997, Andrew McCarthy, Cynthia Geary, Wolf Larson) – Classic Movie Review 11,114

Director Michael Kennedy’s 1997 Canadian-made action crime film Hostile Force is a pretty gutsy thriller, with feisty performances and a decent air of realism. After being shot in a break-in, cops Lucy James (Cynthia Geary) […]

Apr, 19

Murder, He Says **** (1945, Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,113

A murderous rural family, a hapless pollster and a hunt for a cache of money. Fred MacMurray gives a first-class comedy turn in the funny 1945 black and white comedy thriller Murder, He Says. ‘IT’LL […]

Apr, 19

Hostile Guns ** (1967, George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 11,112

Director R G Springsteen’s 1967 Technicolor and Techniscope Western film Hostile Guns stars George Montgomery as town marshal Sheriff Gid McCool, who conducts a coach of prisoners across the Texas plains to the state jail, […]

Apr, 19

The Horror of It All ** (1964, Pat Boone, Erica Rogers, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 11,109

‘The Zaniest Bunch of Ghouls Ever to Haunt a House!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 British horror comedy film The Horror of It All has a screenplay by Ray Russell, and stars Pat Boone and Erica […]

Apr, 18

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