Derek Winnert

Jail Bait ** (1954, Timothy Farrell, Lyle Talbot, Steve Reeves, Dolores Fuller, Herbert Rawlinson, Clancy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 5,169

Edward D Wood Jr strikes again in the 1954 film noir thriller Jail Bait starring Timothy Farrell as gangster Vic Brady, who blackmails a plastic surgeon (Herbert Rawlinson) into giving him a new face to […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

How to be Very, Very Popular ** (1955, Betty Grable, Sheree North, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5168

In her final film, aged 39, the Very, Very Popular Betty Grable bows out with writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thin but amiable 1955 comedy, with only one song by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn – the title […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes ** (1955, Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Scott Brady, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 5167

Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain star in director Richard Sale’s disappointingly stodgy 1955 sequel to the fabulous Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as dark-haired Broadway showgirl sisters who go to Paris to find fame and romance. The […]

Mar, 16

Women without Men [Blonde Bait] *** (1956, Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice, Avril Angers, Thora Hird, Hermione Baddeley, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 5166

Directors Elmo Williams and Herbert Glazer’s 1956 crime melodrama is a minor but intriguing movie from Britain’s Hammer Films studio, promoted with a teasing title that promises something it could hardly deliver in the Fifties. […]

Mar, 16

Stay Hungry **** (1976, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R G Armstrong, Robert Englund) – Classic Movie Review 5165

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bob Rafelson’s 1976 cult comedy drama film Stay Hungry stars Jeff Bridges as restless Alabama heir Craig Blake, who is suddenly orphaned. He turns his back on the country club values and […]

Mar, 16

The Sky’s the Limit ***½ (1943, Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 5164

Director Edward H Griffith’s skillful and purringly pleasing if minor 1943 RKO musical The Sky’s the Limit stars Fred Astaire as Fred Atwell, a Flying Tiger squadron aviator who flies into New York on leave […]

Mar, 16

The Ghost Train *** (1931, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ann Todd) – Classic Movie Review 5163

Director Walter Forde’s original 1931 The Ghost Train is the second version (after a 1927 silent) of playwright Arnold Ridley’s classic stage farcical thriller about stranded travellers, a detective in disguise and smugglers at a […]

Mar, 16

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