Derek Winnert

Operation Petticoat **** (1959, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Dina Merrill, Virginia Gregg) – Classic Movie Review 3,074

Blake Edwards’s 1959 comedy film Operation Petticoat stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, ideal as an admiral and a conniving lieutenant, along with Joan O’Brien, Dina Merrill and Virginia Gregg. Director Blake Edwards’s 1959 wartime […]

Nov, 21 · in Reviews

Father Goose *** (1964, Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3,073

Cary Grant’s spy code-name is Mother Goose in the feather-weight but charming 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose.  Director Ralph Nelson’s modest but sprightly 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose stars Cary Grant, […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

The More the Merrier ***** (1943, Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 3072

George Stevens’s delightful 1943 classic wartime housing shortage romantic comedy The More the Merrier stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Oscar-winning Charles Coburn. Producer-director George Stevens’s delightful 1943 classic romantic comedy The More the Merrier […]

Nov, 20

Walk, Don’t Run *** (1966, Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 3071

Cary Grant bows out from the movies on a sweet but minor note at the age of 62. His final screen role in 1966 is a lightweight but pleasant remake of the 1943 comedy The […]

Nov, 20

Somewhere in Time **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin) – Classic Movie Review 3070

Director Jeannot Szwarc’s gorgeous, haunting, heart-aching 1980 sci-fi fantasy romance stars Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier, a young Chicago playwright who goes to the premiere of his new play. When an old lady (Susan French) […]

Nov, 20

The Rise of the Krays ***½ (2015, Simon Cotton, Kevin Leslie, Josh Myers, James Weber Brown, Paul Blackwell) – Movie Review

Director Zackary Adler’s gritty, well crafted, scary crime thriller movie is the first part of the story of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the twin brother gangsters who started as teenage boxers and rose from humble London East End beginnings […]

Nov, 20

The Dressmaker ***½ (2015, Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook) – Movie Review

The Dressmaker is a unique, stylish and very entertaining black comedy with its first three quarters hilarious but then there is a couple of big shocks when characters die and the story turns really dark […]

Nov, 19

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