Derek Winnert

Dick Tracy vs Cueball **½ (1946, Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Dick Wessel, Lyle Latell, Rita Corday, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 5592

Morgan Conway returns as Tracy in RKO’s enjoyable low-budget crime thriller film Dick Tracy vs Cueball, with Dick Wessel as the murderous diamond thief villain Cueball. Following his debut in Dick Tracy (1945), Morgan Conway […]

Jun, 12 · in Reviews

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome *** (1947, Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne) – Classic Movie Review 5591

‘SLEUTH TRACY CLASHES WITH HIS DEADLIEST FOE!’ Ralph Byrd bows out in style as an ideal Dick Tracy (cinemawise, anyway, for a TV series followed for him in 1950-51) in director John Rawlins’s welcome 1947 […]

Jun, 12 · in Uncategorized

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde * (1953, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott) – Classic Movie Review 5590

Director Charles Lamont’s silly 1953 Universal monsters comedy chiller puts Boris Karloff back together with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello after their success with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff in 1949. Reginald Denny also […]

Jun, 12

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff ** (1949, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 5589

Director Charles T Barton’s 1955 comedy is a less lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with good support actors, a rather unexpected plot and few decent jokes. In this follow-up to the […]

Jun, 12

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy ** (1955, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kurt Katch, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 5,588

The 1955 American horror comedy film Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is another fairly lively Bud and Lou movie series episode, their last of 28 Universal pictures. ‘A man’s best friend is his mummy.’ Director […]

Jun, 12

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man ** (1951, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Arthur Franz, Nancy Guild, Adele Jergens) – Classic Movie Review 5587

Director Charles Lamont’s 1951 comedy is a fairly lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with the expected plot (‘suggested by H G Wells’) and decent effects, particularly in the vivacious and pacy […]

Jun, 12

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein *** (1948, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 5586

Well, actually Abbott and Costello’s Chick Young and Wilbur Grey Meet Frankenstein’s Monster, as well as Count Dracula, and the Werewolf. But then that’s not such a catchy title. Lon Chaney Jr plays the kindly Werewolf […]

Jun, 11

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