Derek Winnert

Thicker Than Water **** (1935, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Daphne Pollard, James Finlayson, Harry Bowen) – Classic Movie Review 11,436

Ollie tells Stan: ‘Here is another nice kettle of fish you’ve pickled me in.’ Director James W Horne’s 1935 comedy Thicker Than Water is Laurel and Hardy’s final short film in which Stan persuades Ollie […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

A Song Is Born *** (1948, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 11,434

Director Howard Hawks’s 1948 Technicolor musical film remake A Song Is Born stars Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Director Hawks’s re-interpretation of his own 1941 classic Ball of Fire features a snappy performance from Kaye as […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

The Square Jungle ** (1955, Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly, Jim Backus, Lee Snowden, John Daheim, John Marley) – Classic Movie Review 11,432

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1955 Universal Pictures film noir sport drama film The Square Jungle stars Tony Curtis as young hood from the ghetto Eddie Quaid, who gives up selling groceries, takes up boxing and punches his way […]

Jul, 30

Sincerely Yours * (1955, Liberace, Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, Alex Nicol) – Classic Movie Review 11,433

After the 1955 flop Sincerely Yours, Warner Bros paid Liberace not to make a second movie. Director Gordon Douglas’s 1955 Warner Color film romantic music comedy Sincerely Yours stars Liberace as Tony Warrin, a Manhattan […]

Jul, 30

The Square Peg ** (1958, Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 11,431

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1958 British Rank Organisation black and white war comedy film The Square Peg stars Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman and Honor Blackman. In the original screenplay by Jack Davies, Henry Blyth, Eddie […]

Jul, 29

The Squeeze ***½ (1977, Stacy Keach, David Hemmings, Edward Fox, Stephen Boyd, Carol White, Freddie Starr) – Classic Movie Review 11,430

Director Michael Apted’s 1977 gangster film The Squeeze is a tough and gritty Seventies British action thriller aping an American genre, in which disgraced, alcoholic detective Jim Naboth (Stacy Keach), fired from the police force […]

Jul, 29

The Square Ring *** (1953, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Maxwell Reed, Joan Collins, Kay Kendall, Bernadette O’Farrell, Bill Owen, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 11,429

Ealing Studios 1953 British boxing drama The Square Ring is a mix of comedy and tragedy, and stars Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Joan Collins and Kay Kendall. Director Basil Dearden and producer Michael Relph’s 1953 […]

Jul, 28

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