Derek Winnert

The Pajama Game ***** (1957, Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Reta Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 1151

Joint directors Stanley Donen and George Abbott deliver a stupendous 1957 movie of the exhilarating all-time-great musical The Pajama Game. It features the original stage cast except for Janis Paige, who is replaced by Doris […]

Apr, 27 · in Reviews

Damn Yankees! ***** (1958, Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 1150

The original stage director and co-author George Abbott brings Broadway’s neon-bright 1955 Faust fantasy musical to the screen with great zest, flair and style. Happily, he keeps the stage show virtually intact and retains most of the […]

Apr, 26 · in Reviews

Hairspray **** (1988, Ricki Lake, Divine, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Debbie Harry, Jerry Stiller, Mink Stole, Pia Zadora) – Classic Movie Review 1149

Director John Waters’s 1988 hit Hairspray is his breakthrough movie, finally leaving micro-budget shockers behind an going for the mainstream. Who’d have thought, a John Waters movie with a PG certificate! It’s a fabulously campy, […]

Apr, 26

Track of the Cat **** (1954, Robert Mitchum, Tab Hunter, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, William Hopper, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 1,148

The 1954 Western film Track of the Cat stars Robert Mitchum as Curt Bridges, who is hunting a symbolic panther, in this beautiful and haunting drama about a squabbling, snow-bound 1880s northern California farming family. […]

Apr, 26

The Girl Can’t Help It **** (1956, Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O’Brien, Barry Gordon, Henry Jones, John Emery, Juanita Moore, Julie London) – Classic Movie Review 1,147

The enjoyable 1956 musical satirical farce The Girl Can’t Help It was one of the year’s biggest hits and made Jayne Mansfield a movie star. Julie London sings ‘Cry Me a River’; Gene Vincent performs […]

Apr, 26

The Tingler **** (1959, Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman) – Classic Movie Review 1146

William Castle: ‘And remember this: A scream at the right time may save your life.’ In producer-director William Castle’s 1959 thoroughly enjoyable chiller chef d’oeuvre The Tingler, Vincent Price stars as Dr Warren Chapin, a pathologist […]

Apr, 25

13 Ghosts *** (1960, Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 1145

Producer-director William Castle’s 1960 chiller is just your usual routine old vintage horror hokum, but it’s very lively and it showcases plenty of crazy characters such as a headless lion tamer and the devious Doctor Zorba […]

Apr, 25

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