Derek Winnert

Turner & Hooch ***½ (1989, Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3824

Tom Hanks stars in Roger Spottiswoode’s sweet and amusing, sit-up-and-beg-to-love-me 1989 comedy as meticulous and fastidious cop Detective Scott Turner who investigates a brutal murder with the help of a big, messy mutt called Hooch (Beasley the dog), […]

Jun, 08 · in Uncategorized

Feather Your Nest ** (1937, George Formby, Polly Ward, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Val Rosing, Davy Burnabe, Moore Marriott) – Classic Movie Review 3823

Director William Beaudine’s 1937 British musical comedy stars George Formby as gormless gramophone record manufacturing company factory worker, technician Willie Piper. He hears pop star Rex Randall (Val Rosing) record a song but then accidentally breaks the master […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

I Didn’t Do It **½ (1945, George Formby, Dennis Wyndham, Hilda Mundy, Gaston Palmer, Jack Daly, Carl Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 3822

For this British comedy crime film, Marcel Varnel directs George Formby in 1945 – and fairly well and amusingly too, especially for a comedy from Formby’s period of decline. Formby stars as entertainer George Trotter who […]

Jun, 08

Come on George! *** (1939, George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Joss Ambler, Meriel Forbes, Cyril Raymond, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 3821

Co-writer/director Anthony Kimmins’s vintage 1939 Ealing studios comedy boasts a particularly exuberant star turn from George Formby as an ice-cream seller who tames a dangerous race-horse, is engaged to look after him and rides him […]

Jun, 08

Turned Out Nice Again *** (1941, George Formby, Peggy Bryan, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 3820

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 showcase for ukulele-playing comic George Formby gets plenty of opportunities for jokes about knickers since he is cast as gormless George Pearson, an overseer in Dawson’s ladies’ underwear factory. There an […]

Jun, 08

I See Ice **** (1938, George Formby, Kay Walsh, Betty Stockfield, Cyril Ritchard, Garry Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 3819

Writer-director Anthony Kimmins cashes in on the popular of ice-skating in 1938 and casts iconic ukulele player and movie star George Formby as a props man in an ice ballet company, ironically called George Bright. […]

Jun, 08

The Royal Hunt of the Sun *** (1969, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting) – Classic Movie Review 3818

British playwright Sir Peter Shaffer had his first big theatre hit in 1964 with The Royal Hunt of the Sun, a drama about the Spanish conquest of Peru that was staged by Britain’s newly founded National Theatre. […]

Jun, 07

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