Derek Winnert

Rough Magic ** (1995, Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 6847

Co-writer/ director Clare Peploe’s odd 1995 comedy film reworking of a vintage 1944 thriller novel by expert James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand is an extremely well crafted, interesting movie but a bit of […]

Mar, 24 · in Uncategorized

Pacific Rim: Uprising * (2018, John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny) – Movie Review

Five years on from Pacific Rim (2013), they have ditched all the things that made the first film pretty good, including the stars and the director, and have replaced them with moderate or mediocre stuff. Pacific Rim: […]

Mar, 23 · in Uncategorized

Knock on Wood *** (1954, Danny Kaye Mai Zetterling, David Burns, Torin Thatcher, Leon Askin, Abner Biberman, Steve Geray) – Classic Movie Review 6846

Jerry Morgan: ‘You know, I don’t think I’m crazy. I think I’m a little bit peculiar, but that’s not crazy.’ Danny Kaye is enjoyably indulged by the talented Norman Panama and Melvin Frank writer-producer-director team […]

Mar, 23

The Canterville Ghost **** (1944, Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 6845

Sir Simon de Canterville: ‘Excuse me, I really must gibber at the oriole window.’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 fantasy comedy is freely based on the delightful Oscar Wilde story and is full of lighthearted whimsy […]

Mar, 23

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt *** (1939, Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth) – Classic Movie Review 6844

Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]

Mar, 22

The Lone Wolf in Paris ** (1938, Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leona Maricle, Olaf Hytten) – Classic Movie Review 6843

Francis Lederer signs up as The Lone Wolf for one episode only, taking over from Melvyn Douglas in the sequel to The Lone Wolf Returns (1935). Frances Drake co-stars as a rival robber posing as princess […]

Mar, 22

The Lone Wolf Returns *** (1935, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell) – Classic Movie Review 6842

Columbia Pictures successfully revives the Lone Wolf jewel thief character created by Louis Joseph Vance in 1914 in the first of his series of eight novels, already the subject of nine movies, and casts Melvyn […]

Mar, 22

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