Derek Winnert

Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] *** (1963, Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Jeremy Brett, Jane Asher) – Classic Movie Review 9334

Who killed Ursula Gray? Director Michael Truman’s 1963 British noir mystery thriller Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] stars Ian Hendry and Ronald Fraser, who make an appealing pair of investigators as Inspector […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

The Old Fashioned Way **** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Joe Morrison, Judith Allen, Nora Cecil) – Classic Movie Review 9333

Director William Beaudine’s agreeably raucous and extremely funny 1934 W C Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way sees the star at his grouchiest as The Great McGonigle, the blustery actor-manager head of a group of […]

Feb, 01 · in Reviews

The Great McGonagall ** (1975, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9332

Director Joe McGrath’s 1974 comedy The Great McGonagall stars Spike Milligan as the obscure and terrible unemployed 19th-century Scottish poet William McGonagall, married to Mrs McGonagall (Julia Foster), and determined to become Queen Victoria’s poet […]

Feb, 01

Percy’s Progress (1974, Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Vincent Price, Judy Geeson, Harry H Corbett, Adrienne Posta, Julie Ege, Barry Humphries) – Classic Movie Review 9,331

Percy’s Progress. eh? Alas, the progress is all downhill, even from the level of the 1971 film Percy. In the same director Ralph Thomas’s trashy 1974 UK sex comedy sequel film, Percy’s Progress, the hero […]

Feb, 01

Percy * (1971, Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 9330

Director Ralph Thomas’s desperate 1971 British sleaze comedy Percy is about a pioneering penis transplant, in which frenzied recipient Edwin Anthony (Hywel Bennett) looks for the perfect donor. It could have been worse — just […]

Feb, 01

One Way Pendulum **** (1965, Eric Sykes, George Cole, Julia Foster, Jonathan Miller, Peggy Mount) – Classic Movie Review 9329

Director Peter Yates’s delightful, quirky 1965 British comedy One Way Pendulum is a gently but satisfyingly amusing film of N F Simpson’s absurdist play, in which the eccentric Groomkirby family living in the suburbs has […]

Feb, 01

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990, Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick) – Classic Movie Review 9328

Director Dirk Campbell’s 1990 British comedy horror movie I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle is a ridiculous vampire spoof with a plot about a possessed Norton motorcycle, bought by Birmingham bike courier Noddy (Neil Morrissey). It […]

Jan, 31

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