Derek Winnert

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The Mandarin Mystery *½ (1936, Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 10,500

Director Ralph Staub’s 1936 Republic Pictures crime thriller The Mandarin Mystery stars Eddie Quillan, who takes over Donald Cook in The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) as an unconvincing Ellery Queen in a confused, unsatisfactory second […]

Nov, 04

Million Dollar Legs **½ (1939, Betty Grable, John Hartley, Donald O’Connor, Jackie Coogan, Buster Crabbe) – Classic Movie Review 10,499

Directors Nick Grinde and Edward Dmytryk’s 1939 Paramount Pictures black and white campus sports romance comedy Million Dollar Legs is based on a story by Lewis R Foster about students at an ailing college seeking […]

Nov, 04

It’s Love Again **** (1936, Jessie Matthews, Robert Young, Sonnie Hale) – Classic Movie Review 10,498

The 1936 British musical film It’s Love Again is a splendid vehicle for the effervescent Jessie Matthews as an ambitious chorus girl masquerading as a rich big-game hunter to boost her showbiz career. Director Victor […]

Nov, 04

It’s in the Air **½ (1938, George Formby, Polly Ward, Garry Marsh, Jack Hobbs) – Classic Movie Review 10,497

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1938 British black and white slapstick comedy It’s in the Air [George Takes the Air] stars George Formby as George Brown, the disaster-struck, motorbike-crazed rookie who joins the RAF as a message […]

Nov, 04

It’s in the Bag! **** (1945, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 10,496

Director Richard Wallace’s wisecracking 1945 slapstick screwball comedy It’s in the Bag! [The Fifth Chair] stars baggy-eyed American radio comedian Fred Allen, who gets his best screen role as a flea-circus promoter/ ringmaster called Fred […]

Nov, 03

Up ‘n’ Under ** (1998, Gary Olsen, Neil Morrissey, Samantha Janus, Tony Slattery, Griff Rhys Jones) – Classic Movie Review 10,494

An untrained Rugby Sevens team, boosted by the alluring Hazel Scott (played by Samantha Janus, aka Samantha Womack), have to get in shape to try to defeat the The Cobblers Arms reigning champions and win […]

Nov, 03

Three Wishes ** (1995, Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy) – Classic Movie Review 10,474

‘If you really believe, magic will find you’. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1995 Three Wishes is a soft-centred, corny feel-good fantasy movie that stars Patrick Swayze as injured vagrant Jack McCloud being invited to move in […]

Oct, 28

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