Derek Winnert

It’s Great to Be Young! *** (1956, John Mills, Cecil Parker, Jeremy Spenser, John Salew) – Classic Movie Review 9485

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1956 film about a school music teacher It’s Great to Be Young! stars John Mills and Cecil Parker, along with, as the The Angel Hill Kids, Jeremy Spenser as Nicky, Dorothy Bromiley […]

Mar, 09 · in Uncategorized

The House in Nightmare Park ** (1973, Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden) – Classic Movie Review 9484

Director Peter Sykes’s comedy horror mystery The House in Nightmare Park (1973) stars Frankie Howerd, who shivers memorably in Bob Hope’s silly shoes in this engagingly daft homage to The Cat and the Canary, in […]

Mar, 09 · in Reviews

A Touch of the Sun ** (1956, Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 9483

Director Gordon Parry’s 1956 British comedy A Touch of the Sun stars Frankie Howerd as William Darling, a put-upon bellhop/ hall porter at a crumbling hotel/ guesthouse, who discovers that he is the beneficiary of […]

Mar, 08

Jumping for Joy ** (1956, Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, A E Matthews, Tony Wright, Alfie Bass, Joan Hickson, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 9482

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s agreeable, if underpowered 1955 British black and white comedy Jumping for Joy rests solidly on the charms of its young star Frankie Howerd. If you enjoy Frankie’s unique brand of naughty […]

Mar, 08

The Invisible Man ** (2020, Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman) – Movie Review

Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man (2020) as Cecilia, who runs from her abusive lover, Adrian, who then apparently takes his own life. But Adrian has faked his own death and has been hiding […]

Mar, 08

Runaway Train *** (1985, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 9481

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 Cannon Group adventure movie Runaway Train is a solid but over-blown mythical action thriller, with outsize performances by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaping prisoners on an out-of-control train speeding […]

Mar, 08

4D Man *** (1959, Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon) – Classic Movie Review 9480

Robert Lansing and James Congdon star as two brothers (research scientist Dr Scott Nelson and physicist Dr Tony Nelson) who develop an amplifier that allows someone to enter a 4-dimensional state and pass through solid surfaces, […]

Mar, 08

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