Derek Winnert

Huckleberry Finn *** (1974, Jeff East, Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman, David Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 9487

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1974 Huckleberry Finn is the sequel to the 1973 family musical adventure Tom Sawyer, with Jeff East returning from that film as Huckleberry Finn and Lucille Benson back as Widder Douglas. […]

Mar, 09 · in Reviews

Tom Sawyer *** (1973, Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East, Jodie Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9486

Director Don Taylor’s 1973 family musical adventure Tom Sawyer is the fourth talkie version of the Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, coming appropriately from Reader’s Digest. It is aimed squarely at […]

Mar, 09 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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