Derek Winnert

Reviews

Derby Day *** (1952, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, Gordon Harker, John McCallum, Peter Graves, Suzanne Cloutier, Gladys Henson) – Classic Movie Review 10,611

Director Herbert Wilcox’s enjoyable 1952 British ensemble drama Derby Day [Four against Fate] stars Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, Gordon Harker, John McCallum, Peter Graves, Suzanne Cloutier and Gladys Henson in a tale of […]

Dec, 01

Big Momma’s House ** (2000, Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Terrence Howard) Classic Movie Review 10,610

Director Raja Gosnell’s 2000 crime comedy Big Momma’s House stars Martin Lawrence, who plays FBI agent Malcolm Turner, forced to disguise himself as a zany grandma to catch an escaped crook, Lester Vesco (Terrence Howard), […]

Dec, 01

Rookery Nook [One Embarrassing Night] **** (1930, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare, Mary Brough) – Classic Movie Review 10,609

The hit series of film adaptations of the Aldwych Farces began with the big box office hit Rookery Nook in 1930 and ran throughout the Thirties. Rookery Nook was the first London theatre Aldwych farce, […]

Dec, 01

Turkey Time *** (1933, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Dorothy Hyson, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 10,608

The London Aldwych Theatre farce acting trio of Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn and Robertson Hare are back for director Tom Walls’s 1933 black and white British farce Turkey Time from the expert Ben Travers. It […]

Dec, 01

Fast and Loose ** (1954, Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall, Brian Reece) – Classic Movie Review 10,607

Director Gordon Parry’s 1954 British black and white comedy Fast and Loose is a rather slow and flabby remake of 1933’s A Cuckoo in the Nest about a newly married husband (Brian Reece) having to […]

Nov, 30

A Cuckoo in the Nest *** (1933, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Tom Walls, Robertson Hare, Mary Brough, Grace Edwin) – Classic Movie Review 10,606

Director Tom Walls’s 1933 British black and white comedy A Cuckoo in the Nest in an endearing, vintage Ben Travers farce with the best London Aldwych Theatre interpreters enjoying themselves enormously in a tale about […]

Nov, 30

Blood on the Sun ** (1945, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 10,605

In 1942 James Cagney left Warner Bros, the studio where he had been so successful, to form his own company with his brother William. So director Frank Lloyd’s 1945 black and white thriller Blood on […]

Nov, 30

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