Derek Winnert

Kidnapped **** (1938, Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, John Carradine, C Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 10,698

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1938 20th Century Fox adventure Kidnapped is the classic vintage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale about a boy, David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew), who is kidnapped and sold as a slave […]

Dec, 23 · in Reviews

Plunder **** (1930, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Winifred Shotter, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 10,696

The 1930 British comedy film Plunder is a smashing, fast-moving, high-spirited Ben Travers farce about upper-crust chums Freddie Malone and Darcy Tuck (Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn) who go gem stealing. Director Tom Walls’s 1930 […]

Dec, 22 · in Reviews

Nothing But the Truth *** (1941, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 10,697

The 1941 comedy film Nothing But the Truth starts with a good premise about a man who bets $10,000 he will tell nothing but the truth for a whole day. The ideally paired Bob Hope […]

Dec, 22

Pot Luck *** (1936, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 10,695

Director Tom Walls’s 1936 British farce Pot Luck stars Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James and Martita Hunt, and is a spoof of detective plays and thrillers, with Walls playing the […]

Dec, 22

Atlantic ** (1929, Franklin Dyall, Madeleine Carroll, John Stuart, John Longden) – Classic Movie Review 10,694

Producer-director Ewald André Dupont’s 1929 black and white British drama Atlantic is ambitious but tragically dated, though it is of interest to buffs as a milestone as the first British all-talking picture and the first […]

Dec, 21

Thank Your Lucky Stars *** (1943, Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 10,693

Director David Butler’s 1943 musical Thank Your Lucky Stars is the Warner Bros’ wartime extravaganza where Bette Davis gets to sing ‘They’re Either Too Young or Too Old’ and turns it into a showstopper. There […]

Dec, 21

Thark **** (1932, Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Robertson Hare, Evalyn Bostock, Mary Brough, Gordon James) – Classic Movie Review 10,692

Director Tom Walls’s 1932 comedy Thark is the film of one of the best of the famous Ben Travers’s Aldwych farces, the hit of London popular theatre in the 20s, with the plot mainly an […]

Dec, 21

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