Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Show People **** (1928, Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson) – Classic Movie Review 9704

Hollywood’s favourite subject – Hollywood – spurs this deservedly famous, still amusing silent comedy story of the rise and rise of Peggy Pepper (wonderful Marion Davies) from green Georgia girl, to slapstick stooge to dramatic […]

May, 02 · in Uncategorized

Ladies Who Do *** (1963, Peggy Mount, Miriam Karlin, Dandy Nichols, Robert Morley, Harry H Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 9703

Four formidable British comedy stalwart ladies – Peggy Mount, Miriam Karlin, Avril Elgar and Dandy Nichols – head the superb Sixties British comic cast of director C M Pennington-Richards’s fairly amusing 1963 farcical comedy Ladies […]

May, 02 · in Uncategorized

Footsteps in the Night ** (1957, Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Eleanore Tanin, Douglas Dick) – Classic Movie Review 9702

Bill Elliott and Don Haggerty star as LA police detectives Lt. Andy Doyle and Sgt. Mike Duncan, who investigate the death in a motel of Elliott’s neighbour buddy Fred Horner (Robert Shayne), apparently caused by […]

May, 02

The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] ** (1956, Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 9701

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] stars Van Johnson as a drunken escaped convict Donald Martin, convicted five years before for killing a man in self-defence in a barroom […]

May, 02

Bottoms Up *** (1960, Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 9700

Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]

May, 02

The Showdown *** (1950, Wild Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 9,699

There is plenty of wild West power in Republic Pictures’ 1950 Western film The Showdown, a sturdy story of a former sheriff (Wild Bill Elliott), hunting his brother’s killer. There is plenty of wild Western […]

May, 01

Showdown ** (1973, Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark – Classic Movie Review 9698

Director George Seaton’s 1973 film Showdown is a generic, standard Western with solid if uninspired performances from Rock Hudson and Dean Martin as Chuck Jarvis and Billy Massey, boyhood friends estranged by their chosen careers […]

May, 01

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