Derek Winnert

A League of Their Own *** (1992, Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 3134

An excellent comedy drama idea about the founding of the All-American Girls’ Baseball League in 1943 when the men were away at war comes close to being chucked away in the popular high-profile 1992 movie […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Bachelor Party ** (1984, Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Wendie Jo Sperber, Michael Dudikoff) – Classic Movie Review 3133

Co-writer-director Neal Israel’s 1984 comedy showcases the young Tom Hanks, then aged 28 and on his way to super-stardom, who leads a smutty, not very funny film about an accident-prone bachelor party. Not even the […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

Indestructible Man ** (1956, Lon Chaney Jnr, Robert Shayne, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott, Casey Adams) – Classic Movie Review 3132

‘The Screen’s 300,000 Volt SHOCKER!’ Or better still: ‘The scream that shocks the screen with 300,000 volts of horror! Inhuman! Invincible! Inescapable!’ Director Jack Pollexfen’s entertaining low-budget 1956 horror movie shocker casts Robert Shayne as […]

Dec, 05

The Life of Emil Zola **** (1937, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Vladimir Sokoloff, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 3131

Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]

Dec, 05

The Bells of St Mary’s **** (1945, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 3130

Producer-director Leo McCarey brings Oscar-winning Bing Crosby quickly back for his heartwarming, sweet but not sickly 1945 follow-up to Going My Way (1944), with Father O’Malley (Crosby) now melting away the prejudices of chirpy Sister […]

Dec, 05

Going My Way **** (1944, Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, Risë Stevens, Gene Lockhart, Jean Heather, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 3129

‘Sing, Bing . . . . You’re A Grand, Gay Guy In Your Greatest Picture !’ Producer-director Leo McCarey also provided the original story for this warm and appealing 1944 multi-Oscar-winner. Voters seemed to agree that […]

Dec, 05

Mrs Miniver **** (1942, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Richard Ney, Dame May Whitty, Henry Travers, Reginald Owen, Rhys Williams) – Classic Movie Review 3,128

The 1942 patriotic tearjerker film Mrs Miniver about an English family coping with World War Two won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for  Greer Garson’s idealised average English middle-class housewife. […]

Dec, 04

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