Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Night We Got the Bird * (1960, Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, Ronald Shiner, Leo Franklyn, Irene Handl, John Slater, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 11,487

Brian Rix returns for director Darcy Conyers’s 1960 British black and white sequel comedy film The Night We Got the Bird, the follow-up to their 1959 hit The Night We Dropped a Clanger. The Night […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

The Night We Dropped a Clanger * (1959, Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn, John Welsh, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 11,486

The 1959 British film The Night We Dropped a Clanger [Make Mine a Double] is a forced and tedious farcical comedy. Brian Rix stars as an Armed Forces lavatory attendant who is mistaken for a […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

Red Light ** (1949, George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 11,485

Producer-director Roy Del Ruth’s 1949 American film noir crime thriller Red Light stars George Raft as innocent Johnny Torno, who goes after the killers of his heroic Catholic chaplain brother Jess (Arthur Franz), when he is released from […]

Aug, 16

The Saphead *** (1920, Buster Keaton, Beulah Booker, William H Crane, Edward Connelly, Edward Jobson) – Classic Movie Review 11,484

Buster Keaton stars as Bertie ‘The Lamb’ Van Alstyne in a remake of Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1915 The Lamb, in which he plays an upper-class twit who cannot follow a guide on how to woo […]

Aug, 16

Sanctuary ** (1961, Lee Remick, Bradford Dillman, Yves Montand) – Classic Movie Review 11,483

Director Tony Richardson’s 1961 black and white drama Sanctuary is a sticky adaptation of a worthy but lost cause – filming William Faulkner’s stories about a 1920s Southern governor’s daughter, Temple Drake, Mrs Gowan Stevens […]

Aug, 16

San Quentin ** (1946, Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane, Marian Carr, Harry Shannon, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,482

RKO’s 1946 thriller film San Quentin features Raymond Burr, aged 29, in his credited film début as ruthless killer Jeff Torrance. Director Gordon M Douglas’s 1946 RKO Radio Pictures thriller film San Quentin features Raymond […]

Aug, 16

Sands of the Desert (1960, Charlie Drake, Peter Arne, Sarah Branch, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 11,481

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1960 Technicolor film Sands of the Desert is a woefully inept British adventure comedy starring Charlie Drake in his first lead role in a feature film as the titular Charlie Sands, […]

Aug, 15

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