Derek Winnert

It’s in the Bag! **** (1945, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 10,496

Director Richard Wallace’s wisecracking 1945 slapstick screwball comedy It’s in the Bag! [The Fifth Chair] stars baggy-eyed American radio comedian Fred Allen, who gets his best screen role as a flea-circus promoter/ ringmaster called Fred […]

Nov, 03 · in Uncategorized

Keep Your Seats, Please! *** (1936, George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 10,495

The 1936 comedy Keep Your Seats, Please! stars George Formby as George Withers, who chases treasure stashed in an antique chair. BBC boss John Reith said: ‘If the public wants to hear Formby singing his […]

Nov, 03 · in Reviews

Up ‘n’ Under ** (1998, Gary Olsen, Neil Morrissey, Samantha Janus, Tony Slattery, Griff Rhys Jones) – Classic Movie Review 10,494

An untrained Rugby Sevens team, boosted by the alluring Hazel Scott (played by Samantha Janus, aka Samantha Womack), have to get in shape to try to defeat the The Cobblers Arms reigning champions and win […]

Nov, 03

Up in the World ** (1956, Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson, Jerry Desmonde) – Classic Movie Review 10,493

Robin Askwith’s Confessions of a Window Cleaner has an ancestor and a rival. Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1956 silly slapstick comedy Up in the World stars Norman Wisdom as window cleaner Norman, who breaks panes, falls […]

Nov, 03

Captain Apache * (1971, Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman) – Classic Movie Review 10,492

Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker and Stuart Whitman get to do some serious violence way out West in director Alexander Singer’s awkward and clunky 1971 UK Spain Western film Captain Apache, filmed in Spain. It […]

Nov, 02

Cannery Row *** (1982, Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley) – Classic Movie Review 10,491

Writer-director David S Ward’s 1982 drama Cannery Row stars Nick Nolte and Debra Winger as baseball player turned marine biologist Doc and feisty floozy Suzy DeSoto. The movie is set in the 1940s, in Cannery […]

Nov, 02

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? ** (1969, Anthony Newley, Joan Collins) – Classic Movie Review 10,490

There’s no shortage of oddities in Anthony Newley’s 1969 utterly weird, totally flashy, and very 60s surreal personal fantasy Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, in which Heironymus Merkin (Newley) […]

Nov, 02

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