Derek Winnert

The Magnificent Two ** (1967, Eric Morcambe, Ernie Wise, Margit Saad, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6574

Director Cliff Owen’s 1966 South American caper comedy is the third of only three cinema movies from beloved British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Following The Intelligence Men (1965) and That Riviera Touch (1966), […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

That Riviera Touch ** (1966, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Suzanne Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 6573

Director Cliff Owen’s 1966 French Riviera caper comedy is the second of only three films from beloved British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Following The Intelligence Men (1965), Morecambe and Wise’s second attempt […]

Jan, 17 · in Reviews

The Intelligence Men ** (1965, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, William Franklyn, Richard Vernon, David Lodge, Warren Mitchell, Francis Matthews, Tutte Lemkow) – Classic Movie Review 6572

Director Robert Asher’s 1965 spy caper comedy is the first of only three films from beloved British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Though made at the peak of their popularity, it lets them […]

Jan, 17

Youth [Fang hua] **** (2017, Xuan Huang, Miao Miao, Caiyu Yang, Elane Zhong) – Movie Review

Xuan Huang stars as Feng Liu, Caiyu Yang as Dingding Lin and Elane Zhong as Suizi in director Xiaogang Feng’s haunting and stirring 2017 romantic drama based around the lives of the young members of a Chinese Military Cultural Troupe in the […]

Jan, 17

The Commuter *** (2018, Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Banks) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson is in his element in director Jaume Collet-Serra’s good old-style fun mystery crime thriller flick along Murder on the Orient Express lines, but with some added high-octane action, plus a slick production. I’m […]

Jan, 17

Innocents in Paris *** (1953, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Jimmy Edwards, Claire Bloom, Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Ronald Shiner, Claude Dauphin, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 6571

A great vintage cast of seven British actors play assorted characters who catch the plane from London and spend a weekend in Paris. There they experience amorous and other adventures and kick up a few mild […]

Jan, 16

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday [Inspector Hornleigh on Vacation] **** (1939, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers) – Classic Movie Review 6569

Following Inspector Hornleigh (1938), the second in the series of three films has a screenplay by comedy thriller experts Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (with J O C Orton), who affectionately and rightly called the series […]

Jan, 16

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