Derek Winnert

Band of Thieves ** (1962, Acker Bilk, Jimmy Thompson, Jennifer Jayne) – Classic Movie Review 12,645

A band of ex-jailbirds get together to play jazz and commit crimes in the daft but mildly diverting 1962 musical crime film Band of Thieves starring clarinettist Acker Bilk. Director Peter Bezencenet’s 1962 British musical […]

Sep, 16 · in Reviews

Variety Jubilee *** (1943, Reginald Purdell, Ellis Irving, Lesley Brook, George Robey, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 12,644

The very entertaining 1943 British musical film Variety Jubilee depicts life in a London music hall from 1892 to World War Two, and is of great archival and nostalgia interest thanks to the precious glimpses […]

Sep, 16 · in Reviews

A Haunting in Venice **½ (2023, Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh) – Classic Movie Review 12,643

Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]

Sep, 16

It’s in the Bag (1944, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Ernest Butcher) – Classic Movie Review 12,642

The popular 1944 British slapstick comedy film It’s in the Bag stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Cockney sisters Gert and Daisy, who try to recover a valuable lost dress. It is a believed lost […]

Sep, 15

Gert and Daisy Clean Up **½ (1942, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Iris Vandeleur, Joss Ambler) – Classic Movie Review 12,641

Elsie and Doris Waters try to run a restaurant and tackle a black marketeer (Joss Ambler) who is controlling the World War Two canned fruit business, in the cheerful 1942 British comedy film Gert and […]

Sep, 15

Gert and Daisy’s Weekend *** (1941, Elsie Waters, Doris Waters, Iris Vandeleur) – Classic Movie Review 12,640

Elsie Waters and Doris Waters are very amusing as cheery cockneys in the merry 1941 British comedy film Gert and Daisy’s Weekend. Gert and Daisy volunteer to escort a group of evacuee children from Blitz-torn […]

Sep, 15

Our Miss Fred * (1972, Danny La Rue, Alfred Marks, Lance Percival, Lally Bowers, Frances de la Tour, Walter Gotell) – Classic Movie Review 12,639

  The ghastly 1972 British wartime comedy film Our Miss Fred stars likeable and popular Danny La Rue as a British army private who dresses in drag to escape the Germans in France. Director Bob […]

Sep, 11

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