Derek Winnert

Up Pops the Devil ** (1931, Carole Lombard, Norman Foster, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher, Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman) – Classic Movie Review 10,691

Up Pops the Devil (1931) is a strange title for a forgettable role swap, home husband tale of a working wife Anne Merrick (Carole Lombard) helping her writer husband Steve (Norman Foster) by taking a […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

A Fool There Was *** (1915, Theda Bara, Edward José, Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear) – Classic Movie Review 10,690

Theda Bara plays the cinema’s first sex goddess, a seductive woman referred to as a ‘vampire’, in director Frank Powell’s 1915 American silent drama film A Fool There Was,  which was long considered controversial for […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Thanks for the Memory *** (1938, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 10,689

‘A GAY STORY OF LOVE AND LAUGHS ‘ Director George Archainbaud’s 1938 black and white comedy Thanks for the Memory stars Bob Hope as writer Steve Merrick, whose marriage to bohemian Anne Merrick (Ross) is […]

Dec, 20

Louisiana Purchase **** (1941, Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore) – Classic Movie Review 10,688

‘It’s your greatest screen show with a De Sylva lining!’ Bob Hope is on top form as Jim Taylor, a dupe of his machinating bosses (Frank Albertson, Donald MacBride) at the Louisiana Purchase Company, in […]

Dec, 20

Caught in the Draft *** (1941, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 10,687

The 1941 comedy Caught in the Draft stars Bob Hope as a famous vain Hollywood movie star scaredy-cat, who tries to avoid being called up in World War Two, but is drafted into the US […]

Dec, 20

Big House, USA **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Reed Hadley, Lon Chaney Jr, Charles Bronson, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 10,686

‘We’re bustin’ out of this tomb… And we don’t care how many of you we have to kill!’ The 1955 film noir crime thriller Big House, USA stars Broderick Crawford, Ralph Meeker, Lon Chaney Jr, […]

Dec, 19

Caught **** (1949, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 10,685

Director Max Ophüls’s 1949 black and white film noir romantic drama Caught stars James Mason, Robert Ryan and Barbara Bel Geddes. Leonora Eames (Bel Geddes) marries neurotic Smith Ohlrig (Ryan) for his money, only to […]

Dec, 19

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