Derek Winnert

A Night Like This *** (1932, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare, Claude Hulbert, Mary Brough) – Classic Movie Review 11,177

Director Tom Walls’s 1932 British black and white comedy A Night Like This is an extremely funny old-style farce, based on a play by Ben Travers, concerning a group of gamblers and the policeman who […]

May, 07 · in Reviews

Dirty Work ** (1934, Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare, Lilian Bond, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 11,176

Director Tom Walls’s flimsy and cobwebby 1934 British black and white crime comedy Dirty Work is a gossamer fine Ben Travers farce with a plot that you could virtually see through if you held it […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

The Disorderly Orderly *** (1964, Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Susan Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 11,175

Writer-director Frank Tashlin’s 1964 Technicolor slapstick comedy The Disorderly Orderly is one of the best from Jerry Lewis. It is nicely made by former animator Tashlin, who treats the frantic star like a cartoon character. […]

May, 06

Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket] **** (1973, Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy) – Classic Movie Review 11,174

The 1973 Indian film Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket] is director Satyajit Ray’s moving look at the horrifying effects of the Bengali famine in 1943, viewed in microcosm through the lives of a warm-hearted doctor-teacher Gangacharan […]

May, 06

Distant Thunder *** (1988, John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane) – Classic Movie Review 11,173

‘A hero of war. A casualty of peace. With only one hope for survival. His son.’  Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1988 drama Distant Thunder is a well-played and likeable, but clichéd and over-sentimental Canadian tearjerker, though […]

May, 06

D-Tox * (2002, Sylvester Stallone, Charles S Dutton, Polly Walker, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 11,172

Director Jim Gillespie’s 2002 crime film D-Tox stars Sylvester Stallone as FBI agent Jake Malloy on the trail of a serial killer targeting cops, who becomes alcoholic and attends a remote detox clinic rehabilitation camp […]

May, 06

Kim **** (1950, Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 11,171

MGM’s 1950 Technicolor film Kim is a spectacular adventure classic based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel about an orphan boy (Dean Stockwell), recruited as a spy by the British for derring-do in 1880s India. Director Victor […]

May, 06

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