Derek Winnert

It’s a Grand Life *** (1953, Frank Randle, Diana Dors, Dan Young, Michael Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 11,117

Producer-director John E Blakeley’s 1953 low budget British black and white comedy It’s a Grand Life is the cheery final film showcase for vulgar Lancashire music-hall comic Frank Randle, which may be recommendation enough. It […]

Apr, 20 · in Uncategorized

Cosh Boy [The Slasher] *** (1953, James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, Hermione Baddeley, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 11,116

Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 black and white noir drama film Cosh Boy [The Slasher] is fascinating as an early British look at teen culture and as a reflection of how London was just after World War […]

Apr, 19 · in Uncategorized

Corvette Summer *** (1978, Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche) – Classic Movie Review 11,115

Co-writer/ director Matthew Robbins’s 1978 Corvette Summer [The Hot One] was what Mark Hamill was doing when the force wasn’t with him in Star Wars. It was his very next film after the blockbuster that […]

Apr, 19

Hostile Force ** (1997, Andrew McCarthy, Cynthia Geary, Wolf Larson) – Classic Movie Review 11,114

Director Michael Kennedy’s 1997 Canadian-made action crime film Hostile Force is a pretty gutsy thriller, with feisty performances and a decent air of realism. After being shot in a break-in, cops Lucy James (Cynthia Geary) […]

Apr, 19

Murder, He Says **** (1945, Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,113

A murderous rural family, a hapless pollster and a hunt for a cache of money. Fred MacMurray gives a first-class comedy turn in the funny 1945 black and white comedy thriller Murder, He Says. ‘IT’LL […]

Apr, 19

Hostile Guns ** (1967, George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 11,112

Director R G Springsteen’s 1967 Technicolor and Techniscope Western film Hostile Guns stars George Montgomery as town marshal Sheriff Gid McCool, who conducts a coach of prisoners across the Texas plains to the state jail, […]

Apr, 19

Sherlock Holmes in New York *** (1976, Roger Moore, John Huston, Patrick Macnee, Charlotte Rampling, Gig Young, David Huddleston) – Classic Movie Review 11,111

Director Boris Sagal’s 1976 American mystery TV movie Sherlock Holmes in New York finds Roger Moore relishing his chance to play Sherlock Holmes, who faces his arch-enemy Professor James Moriarty (John Huston) on the streets […]

Apr, 19

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