Derek Winnert

Fast and Loose ** (1954, Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall, Brian Reece) – Classic Movie Review 10,607

Director Gordon Parry’s 1954 British black and white comedy Fast and Loose is a rather slow and flabby remake of 1933’s A Cuckoo in the Nest about a newly married husband (Brian Reece) having to […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

A Cuckoo in the Nest *** (1933, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Tom Walls, Robertson Hare, Mary Brough, Grace Edwin) – Classic Movie Review 10,606

Director Tom Walls’s 1933 British black and white comedy A Cuckoo in the Nest in an endearing, vintage Ben Travers farce with the best London Aldwych Theatre interpreters enjoying themselves enormously in a tale about […]

Nov, 30 · in Reviews

Blood on the Sun ** (1945, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 10,605

In 1942 James Cagney left Warner Bros, the studio where he had been so successful, to form his own company with his brother William. So director Frank Lloyd’s 1945 black and white thriller Blood on […]

Nov, 30

Blood on the Moon **** (1948, Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 10,604

Robert Wise’s first-class 1948 RKO black-and-white psychological Western film noir stars Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston and Walter Brennan. It is a Martin Scorsese favourite. ‘The deadliest range war ever to EXPLODE on the screen!’ Director Robert Wise’s first-class […]

Nov, 30

The Devil Makes Three ** (1952, Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 10,603

Director Andrew Marton’s 1952 MGM black and white thriller The Devil Makes Three stars Gene Kelly, who enjoys a straight acting role as American pilot Captain Jeff Eliot, a US serviceman who stumbles across a […]

Nov, 29

Night Editor *** (1946, William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 10,602

Director Henry Levin’s nifty, well set-up 1946 Columbia Pictures B-movie black and white film noir thriller Night Editor is based on a popular radio programme about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at fictional newspaper called […]

Nov, 29

Dial 1119 [The Violent Hour] *** (1950, Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King) – Classic Movie Review 10,601

The neat and tidy 1950 film noir support thriller Dial 1119 is directed by the nephew of MGM boss Louis B Mayer, and stars Marshall Thompson as a deranged escaped killer holding hostage the customers […]

Nov, 29

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