Derek Winnert

The Black Sleep *** (1956, Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 4549

‘Horror beyond belief rising from the depths of a black hell!’ Ah, yes, excellent! But, wait, there’s more: ‘A horror horde of monster mutants walk the Earth!’ Horror icons Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John […]

Oct, 27 · in Reviews

First Kid *** (1996, Sinbad, Brock Pierce, James Naughton, Lisa Eichhorn, Zachery Ty Bryan, Erin Williby, Blake Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4548

Director David M Evans’s laid-back, entertaining 1996 Disney comedy stars Sinbad, who is amusing as ex-boxer Sam Simms, the agent in charge of Luke Davenport (Brock Pierce), the difficult, troublesome, 13-year-old son of the US […]

Oct, 27 · in Reviews

Who Was That Lady? *** (1960, Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 4547

Director George Sidney’s amusingly zany 1960 comedy is the fifth and last film together of husband and wife star team Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. It also stars Dean Martin as Michael Haney, and nowadays seems to […]

Oct, 27

The Perfect Furlough [Strictly for Pleasure] **½ (1958, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Elaine Stritch, Keenan Wynn, Troy Donahue, King Donovan, Linda Cristal, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 4546

Understandably, 104 sex-starved US bachelor boy soldiers stationed in the Arctic building a radar base are getting restless, in director Blake Edwards’s fairly amusing but broad and unsubtle 1958 American satirical services comedy. Tony Curtis […]

Oct, 27

Houdini ***½ (1953, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Sig Ruman, Angela Clarke, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 4545

Paired for the first time in their five films together, Tony Curtis stars with his then wife Janet Leigh in director George Marshall’s largely imaginary 1953 biopic of the great escaper Harry Houdini (aka Erich […]

Oct, 27

Room for One More [The Easy Way] *** (1952, Cary Grant, Betsy Drake) – Classic Movie Review 4544

Director Norman Taurog’s consistently amusing, pleasantly sentimental 1952 comedy drama stars Cary Grant and his then wife Betsy Drake, who play Anna and George ‘Poppy’ Rose, a real-life husband and wife who already have three children […]

Oct, 27

Houseboat *** (1958, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Guardino, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 4543

Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s popular 1958 romantic comedy Houseboat has the inestimable advantage of teaming wonderful Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, great friends in real life, in their glorious golden days. There were two Oscar […]

Oct, 27

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