Derek Winnert

Maytime in Mayfair * (1949, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 9454

Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1949 romantic musical Maytime in Mayfair is the empty-headed Technicolor sequel to the hugely successful 1948 Spring in Park Lane, though it sees the welcome return of Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Nicholas […]

Mar, 02 · in Reviews

Spring in Park Lane *** (1948, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Tom Walls) – Classic Movie Review 9453

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1948 British romantic comedy film Spring in Park Lane stars Anna Neagle and Wilding Michael in this incredibly popular fluff about an impoverished earl Richard (Wilding) who only pretends to be a footman, […]

Mar, 02 · in Reviews

W C Fields and Me ** (1976, Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley) – Classic Movie Review 9451

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1976 Tinseltown biopic W C Fields and Me stars Rod Steiger, who impersonates the great comedian, drinker and baby-hater in an amusing Seventies showbiz saga based loosely on the memoirs of his […]

Mar, 01

The Thief Who Came to Dinner *** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9,450

The 1973 film The Thief Who Came to Dinner is an often sparkling caper thriller, with an on-form Ryan O’Neal as Webster McGee, a charming diamond thief playing cat and mouse with Warren Oates’s canny […]

Mar, 01

Way Down East ***** (1920, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 9449

Producer-director D W Griffith’s 1920 heart-tugging black and white silent romantic drama Way Down East stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Lowell Sherman, and is based on a play by Lottie Blair Parker and William […]

Mar, 01

Weekend at Bernie’s II ** (1993, Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Troy Byer, Barry Bostwick) – Classic Movie Review 9448

Writer-director Robert Klane’s unexpected 1993 sequel Weekend at Bernie’s II to the 1989 hit comedy Weekend at Bernie’s centres on the hunt for the deceased mobster Bernie Lomax’s cash. Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman return […]

Mar, 01

Wayne’s World 2 *** (1993, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere, Chris Farley) Classic Movie Review 9447

Director Stephen Surjik’s 1993 comedy Wayne’s World 2 is a less raucous, more amiable and more accomplished sequel to the 1992 Wayne’s World, though also much less popular at the box office. This time the […]

Feb, 29

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