Derek Winnert

Buck Privates *** (1941, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Jane Frazee) – Classic Movie Review 9442

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1941 wartime services comedy Buck Privates [Rookies] stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their first starring madcap nonsense, in which they play sidewalk salesmen Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown, who enlist […]

Feb, 29 · in Reviews

Black Magic ** (1949, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Valentina Cortese) – Classic Movie Review 9441

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1949 black and white adventure movie Black Magic stars the old magician Orson Welles, who hams it up in an absurd swashbuckler as Cagliostro the magician-hypnotist-adventurer, who learns his skills from hypnotism […]

Feb, 28 · in Reviews

One Good Turn *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr) – Classic Movie Review 9440

Director James W Horne’s 1931 black and white two-reeler short comedy One Good Turn stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Depression victims Laurel and Hardy haven’t eaten for three days – ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’ […]

Feb, 28

Great Guns *** (1941, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 9439

Director Monty [Montague] Banks’s 1941 black and white wartime comedy Great Guns stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, trying only partly successfully to revamp their career with a new studio (20th Century Fox), as soft, […]

Feb, 28

Early to Bed *** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 9438

‘9:00 am to 10:00 am. That important hour when financial kings of American affairs open their mail.’ Director Emmett J Flynn’s 1928 two-reeler black and white silent comedy short Early to Bed is the first […]

Feb, 28

Brats **** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 9437

Director James Parrott’s two-reeler 1930 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy short Brats is a plotless series of funny gags, with witty characterisations, clever trick photography, expert sets and a very good production. The Brats […]

Feb, 28

The Onion Field **** (1979, John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales) – Classic Movie Review 9436

Director Harold Becker turns Joseph Wambaugh’s factually based novel about a kidnapped cop Karl Hettinger (John Savage), who witnesses his partner Ian Campbell (Ted Danson)’s murder, into a distinguished inquiry into the American judicial system. […]

Feb, 27

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