Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

The Ghost Train **** (1941, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Morland Graham, Herbert Lomas, Linden Travers, George Merritt) – Classic Movie Review 5162

Ten years on in 1941, director Walter Forde gets to remake his own great 1931 comedy movie success The Ghost Train, based on playwright Arnold Ridley’s vintage stage play, now polished up as a vehicle […]

Mar, 15

Ziegfeld Girl **** (1941, James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin,Philip Dorn, Dan Dailey) – Classic Movie Review 5161

MGM’s spectacular 1941 musical drama is engaging, opulently made and lavishly cast. It follows the fortunes of three plucky gals (Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner), all charming, idiosyncratic beauties determined to aim for […]

Mar, 15

Yolanda and the Thief ***½ (1945, Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Leon Ames, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 5159

Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer reunite from Ziegfeld Follies (1945) for more graceful dancing, filmed with flair and lavishness by MGM in glorious Technicolor. With Frank Morgan as Victor Trout, Leon Ames as Mr Candle, and Mildred Natwick […]

Mar, 15

Ziegfeld Follies **** (1945, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, William Powell, Jimmy Durante, Gene Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 5160

MGM’s exhilarating, eye-smackingly gaudy 1945 Technicolor film imitation of one of US producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s stage revues is a bright, spangly, brilliantly pretty curate’s egg of a movie. Alas it is weighed down with cobwebby […]

Mar, 15

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