Derek Winnert

Strange Way of Life [Extraña forma de vida] ** (2023, Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, George Steane, Manu Ríos) – Classic Movie Review 12,663

Pedro Almodóvar’s Western short film Strange Way of Life is over-produced and under-realised, with a lot of expertise put into something so simple and flimsy. But Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal go to it with […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Love Is a Ball [All This and Money Too] ** (1962, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Hope Lange, Ricardo Montalban, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 12,662

The 1962 United Artists widescreen colour film Love Is a Ball [All This and Money Too] is a middling romantic comedy with the elegant Charles Boyer matchmaking in the pretty French Riviera scenery. Glenn Ford […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Mr Peabody and the Mermaid ** (1948, William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey) – Classic Movie Review 12,661

Universal Pictures’ 1948 American romantic fantasy comedy film Mr Peabody and the Mermaid stars William Powell and Ann Blyth in the title roles. Mr Peabody goes fishing and catches an alluring mermaid. Director Irving Pichel’s […]

Oct, 05

Ghost Ship * (1952, Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, John Robinson, Hugh Latimer, Patricia Owens, Melissa Stribling, Joan Carol) – Classic Movie Review 12,660

The soggy, cheap-looking 1952 British B-movie horror thriller film Ghost Ship stars the real-life husband and wife team of Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court. Incredibly, it is the third of four times Vernon Sewell filmed the […]

Oct, 03

Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard *** (1939, Mary Clare, Edward Lexy, Nigel Patrick, Anthony Ireland, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 12,659

Mary Clare stars in her only title role as the investigating Mrs Pym, Scotland Yard’s only female detective, in the 1939 British comedy-drama thriller film Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard. Director Fred Elles’s 1939 British […]

Oct, 03

The Big Boodle [A Night in Havana] ** (1957, Errol Flynn, Pedro Armendariz, Rossana Rory, Gia Scala) – Classic Movie Review 12,658

The interesting 1957 Havana-set American film noir crime film The Big Boodle is based on the 1954 novel by Robert Sylvester, and stars Errol Flynn, Pedro Armendariz, Rossana Rory and Gia Scala. It is shot in […]

Oct, 02

Teenage Zombies (1959, Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan, Paul Pepper, Mitzie Albertson) – Classic Movie Review 12,657

Jerry Warren’s infamously bad 1959 film Teenage Zombies stars Katherine Victor, Don Sullivan, Paul Pepper, Mitzie Albertson, and famed LA disc jockey Chuck Niles as hulking, bearded Ivan the Zombie, as well as Warren’s wife […]

Oct, 01

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