Derek Winnert

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song *** (1971, Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales) – Classic Movie Review 9456

Melvin Van Peebles writes, scores, edits, directs, produces and stars in the 1971 action crime drama Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles is the whole show as Sweetback, a cool guy on the […]

Mar, 03 · in Reviews

Men O’War **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 9455

Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 two-reeler short comedy Men O’War stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as sailors on shore leave, who meet two giggling girls (Anne Cornwall, Gloria Greer) in the park. Written and […]

Mar, 03 · in Reviews

Maytime **** (1937, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 9452

Director Robert Z Leonard’s pretty 1937 MGM musical Maytime tells the cute and eventful story of true love versus opera’s bright lights, with some splendid singing from Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and a score […]

Mar, 03

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

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

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

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