Derek Winnert

Lost in America *** (1985, Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Michael Greene, Garry Marshall, Maggie Roswell, Tom Tarpey) – Classic Movie Review 10,740

Co-writer/ director Albert Brooks’s 1985 comedy Lost in America stars Brooks as successful LA yuppie David Howard, who is passed over for promotion, so he convinces his wife Linda (Julie Hagerty) that they should quit […]

Jan, 02 · in Reviews

Sailors Three *** (1940, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann, Jeanne De Casalis, James Hayter, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 10,739

Walter Forde’s 1940 British black and white comedy film Sailors Three is a silly, happy, likeable World War Two patriotic Ealing Studios musical farce, with Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding.  Director Walter Forde’s […]

Jan, 02 · in Reviews

Fiddlers Three ** (1944, Tommy Trinder, Frances Day, Sonnie Hale, Diana Decker) – Classic Movie Review 10,738

Director Harry Watt’s 1944 British black-and-white comedy with musical sections Fiddlers Three [While Nero Fiddled] is a cut-price version of the similar Eddie Cantor’s Roman Scandals with Tommy Trinder and Sonnie Hale as over-cheerful sailors […]

Jan, 02

The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980, Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson) – Classic Movie Review 10,737

Director Piers Haggard’s fiendishly awful 1980 ‘comedy’ The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu is the final movie of Peter Sellers, who plays both the bad doctor Fu Manchu, now back to perpetrate gem robberies […]

Jan, 02

King of Burlesque *** (1936, Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 10,736

Six decent songs ‘Lovely Lady’, ‘Shooting High’, ‘Whose Big Baby are You?’, ‘Spreading Rhythm Around’, ‘Too Good to Be True’, and ‘I Love to Ride the Horses on a Merry-Go-Round’, a strong cast and a […]

Jan, 01

Hello Frisco, Hello **** (1943, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar, June Havoc, Ward Bond, George Barbier) – Classic Movie Review 10,735

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1943 20th Century Fox wartime hit film Hello Frisco, Hello is an exceptionally bright and breezy Alice Faye musical in which she gets to sing the sweet Best Original Song Oscar-winner […]

Jan, 01

Henry & June *** (1990, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E Grant, Kevin Spacey,) – Classic Movie Review 10,734

Director Philip Kaufman’s 1990 biographical drama Henry & June is a truly erotic piece of cinema, set in Paris in the early 1930s. The author Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and his wife June (Uma Thurman) […]

Jan, 01

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