Derek Winnert

Man About the House ** (1974, Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett) – Classic Movie Review 9536

Hammer Films’ tame and tiring 1974 sex comedy Man About the House is spun off from the popular 39-episode Seventies British TV series Man About the House (1973–1976) about two young women, Chrissy and Jo, […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

A Man, a Woman and a Bank *** (1979, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky) – Classic Movie Review 9535

Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams star as amateur crooks Reese Halperin (Sutherland) and Stacey Bishop (Adams), who find a computerised way to rob a Vancouver bank, in director Noel Black’s generally amusing, often tense Seventies […]

Mar, 20 · in Uncategorized

Mammy *** (1930, Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 9534

Al Jolson stars as minstrel singer Al Fuller, in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky 1930 behind-the-scenes theatre musical Mammy, with a shooting, an Irving Berlin score and Louise Dresser all thrown in as Mammy. Jolson has […]

Mar, 20

Mame * (1974, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 9533

Director Gene Saks’s 1974 Mame is the way less than satisfactory movie of the all-time great Jerry Herman Broadway show, though even so it is a bit of a one-hit wonder – the title track […]

Mar, 20

The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] **** (1939, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee, Alan Napier, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 9532

Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]

Mar, 20

Just Cause *** (1995, Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw) – Classic Movie Review 9531

Director Arne Glimcher’s 1995 legal thriller Just Cause stars Sean Connery as anti-death penalty campaigning Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong who looks into all the evidence when he is told that a Death Row killer […]

Mar, 20

The Mambo Kings ***** (1992, Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Pablo Calogero, Desi Arnaz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9530

Producer-director Arne Glimcher’s brilliant, beguling 1992 musical drama The Mambo Kings is the musical film as a style object. Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas star in a soulful love story with music about two brothers […]

Mar, 20

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