Derek Winnert

Desert Mice ** (1959, Alfred Marks, Sidney James, Patricia Bredin, Dick Bentley, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, Marius Goring, Reginald Beckwith, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 7299

Producer/ director Michael Relph’s 1959 British film Desert Mice is a jolly Fifties comedy, predating TV’s similarly themed long-running hit sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, about a wartime concert party performing for British soldiers […]

Jul, 16 · in Reviews

Left Right and Centre *** (1959, Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Gordon Harker, George Benson, Jack Hedley) – Classic Movie Review 7,298

‘You’ll Howl When SEX and POLITICS Collide Head On!’ Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1959 British black and white satirical comedy Left Right and Centre tells a tale we all know quite well – about an English television celebrity […]

Jul, 16 · in Reviews

Larceny, Inc *** (1942, Edward G Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Edward Brophy, Anthony Quinn, Jack Carson, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7297

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1942 Warner Bros crime comedy Larceny, Inc stars Edward G Robinson, who gives yet another bright and breezy performance in this lighthearted gangster spoof based on Laura Perelman and S J Perelman’s […]

Jul, 16

The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] *** (1955, Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, Anne Bancroft, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 7296

Director Anthony Mann’s 1956 The Last Frontier [Savage Wilderness] is a slightly below-par, rather predictable Western from director Mann and writers Philip Yordan and Russell S Hughes, all of whom could be brilliant on a […]

Jul, 16

The Las Vegas Story *** (1952, Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael, Brad Dexter, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 7,295

The 1952 film noir crime thriller The Las Vegas Story stars Jane Russell as a married café singer who meets an old flame police lieutenant (Victor Mature) in Las Vegas and he saves her investment […]

Jul, 16

The Secret of Marrowbone ** (2018, George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg, Nicola Harrison, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review

George MacKay stars in The Secret of Marrowbone (2018) as a young English man called Jack who lives in an ancient American manor house with his three younger siblings (Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Matthew Stagg), who […]

Jul, 15

Hot Rods to Hell ** (1967, Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 7294

The very low-budget 1967 action suspense thriller Hot Rods to Hell is esteemed director John Brahm’s last film. It was panned back in the day but made a profit and has now developed a camp […]

Jul, 15

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