Derek Winnert

Hoopla [Hoop-La] ** (1933, Clara Bow, Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell, Minna Gombell) – Classic Movie Review 11,046

‘SHE KNEW MEN LIKE A BOOK-SHE THOUGHT SHE DID… UNTIL A ROMANTIC YOUNGSTER OPENED HER EYES TO A PAGE OF GENUINE ROMANCE!’ Director Frank Lloyd’s 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film Hoopla [Hoop-La] stars Clara […]

Mar, 26 · in Reviews

No Ordinary Man *** (documentary, 2020) – Movie Review

The beautiful, complex and thoughtful 2020 Canadian documentary No Ordinary Man takes an in-depth look at the life of American jazz musician, bandleader and now trans culture icon Billy Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, […]

Mar, 25 · in Reviews

The Dolly Sisters *** (1945, Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 11,045

‘They’re Beautiful…They’re Glamorous…They’re Scandalous…’ Director Irving Cummings’s 1945 American Technicolor biographical film The Dolly Sisters stars Betty Grable (as Jenny) who teams up with June Haver (as Rosie) in the fictionalised real-life story of the 1900s famed […]

Mar, 25

Diamond Horseshoe **** (1945, Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, Margaret Dumont, William Gaxton) – Classic Movie Review 11,044

Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]

Mar, 25

Diamond Head ** (1962, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, James Darren, France Nuyen, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 11,043

The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]

Mar, 25

The Ware Case *** (1938, Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry K Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 11,042

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1938 British black and white thriller The Ware Case is a creaky but gripping third film version (after 1917 and 1928 silents) of George Pleydell Bancroft’s courtroom play about a womanising financier […]

Mar, 24

Diagnosis: Murder ** (1974, Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 11,041

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1974 crime mystery Diagnosis: Murder is a rather weary and drab production-line Seventies British thriller that seems older even than its years, about psychiatrist Dr Stephen Hayward (Christopher Lee) accused in anonymous […]

Mar, 24

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