Derek Winnert

Pin Up Girl ** (1944, Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E Brown, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 11,606

Director Bruce Humberstone’s 1944 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical romantic comedy film Pin Up Girl provides the obvious title for top World War Two wartime pin-up Betty Grable in a modest, lightly amusing musical, in […]

Sep, 28 · in Reviews

The Babe Ruth Story (1948, William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, William Frawley, Robert Ellis, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 11,605

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1948 baseball film biography The Babe Ruth Story stars William Bendix as the famed New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, aka ‘The Sultan of Swat’, Claire Trevor as his wife Claire, Sam Levene […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

The Conqueror (1956, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armendáriz, Agnes Moorehead, Thomas Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 11,604

John Wayne stars as the Mongolian chieftain Genghis Khan in The Conqueror (1956), fondly regarded as one of the worst movies of all time. Director Dick Powell’s hysterically awful 1956 historical adventure epic film The Conqueror […]

Sep, 27

A Place for Lovers [Amanti] (1968, Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni) – Classic Movie Review 11,603

Director Vittorio De Sica’s superbad 1968 Italian-French romantic film A Place for Lovers [Amanti] is Love Story with an Italian backdrop. It stars stars beautiful people Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni, and is often judged one of […]

Sep, 27

Keep Fit *** (1937, George Formby, Kay Walsh, Guy Middleton) – Classic Movie Review 11,602

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1937 British comedy musical film Keep Fit stars George Formby, who was at his British box-office peak and certainly is fit to play an incompetent barber’s assistant, George Green, who is confused […]

Sep, 26

Keep Smiling ** (1938, Gracie Fields, Roger Livesey, Mary Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 11,601

Lancashire lass Gracie Fields gets the glossy 20th Century Fox treatment in director Monty Banks’s 1938 British comedy musical film Keep Smiling [Smiling Along], an amusing if undemanding tale of the mishaps that befall a […]

Sep, 26

The Keeper ** (1976, Christopher Lee, Tell Schreiber, Sally Gray, Ross Vezarian, Ian Tracey, Bing Jensen) – Classic Movie Review 11,600

Writer-director Tom Y Drake’s 1976 low-budget Canadian movie The Keeper is a modestly made, comfortably familiar horror film with the admirable Christopher Lee as the sinister, crippled asylum head The Keeper and an ancient plot about […]

Sep, 26

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