Derek Winnert

Reviews

Pot Luck *** (1936, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 10,695

Director Tom Walls’s 1936 British farce Pot Luck stars Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James and Martita Hunt, and is a spoof of detective plays and thrillers, with Walls playing the […]

Dec, 22

Atlantic ** (1929, Franklin Dyall, Madeleine Carroll, John Stuart, John Longden) – Classic Movie Review 10,694

Producer-director Ewald André Dupont’s 1929 black and white British drama Atlantic is ambitious but tragically dated, though it is of interest to buffs as a milestone as the first British all-talking picture and the first […]

Dec, 21

Thank Your Lucky Stars *** (1943, Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 10,693

Director David Butler’s 1943 musical Thank Your Lucky Stars is the Warner Bros’ wartime extravaganza where Bette Davis gets to sing ‘They’re Either Too Young or Too Old’ and turns it into a showstopper. There […]

Dec, 21

Thark **** (1932, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Robertson Hare, Evalyn Bostock, Mary Brough, Gordon James) – Classic Movie Review 10,692

Director Tom Walls’s 1932 comedy Thark is the film of one of the best of the famous Ben Travers’s Aldwych farces, the hit of London popular theatre in the 20s, with the plot mainly an […]

Dec, 21

Up Pops the Devil ** (1931, Carole Lombard, Norman Foster, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman) – Classic Movie Review 10,691

Up Pops the Devil (1931) is a strange title for a forgettable role swap, home husband tale of a working wife Anne Merrick (Carole Lombard) helping her writer husband Steve (Norman Foster) by taking a […]

Dec, 21

A Fool There Was *** (1915, Theda Bara, Edward José, Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear) – Classic Movie Review 10,690

Theda Bara plays the cinema’s first sex goddess, a seductive woman referred to as a ‘vampire’, in director Frank Powell’s 1915 American silent drama film A Fool There Was,  which was long considered controversial for […]

Dec, 20

Thanks for the Memory *** (1938, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 10,689

‘A GAY STORY OF LOVE AND LAUGHS ‘ Director George Archainbaud’s 1938 black and white comedy Thanks for the Memory stars Bob Hope as writer Steve Merrick, whose marriage to bohemian Anne Merrick (Ross) is […]

Dec, 20

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