Derek Winnert

The Balcony *** (1963, Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9209

Director Joseph Strick’s 1963 satirical drama The Balcony is a strongly cast low-budget movie of the Jean Genet theatre shocker, with Shelley Winters as Madame Irma, the madam of a brothel, Peter Falk as her […]

Dec, 31 · in Uncategorized

The Facts of Life *** (1960, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore) – Classic Movie Review 9208

Director Melvin Frank’s 1960 black and white romantic comedy drama The Facts of Life is a pleasurable, civilised vehicle for Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as Larry and Kitty, two married folk from the ‘burbs […]

Dec, 31 · in Uncategorized

Alias Jesse James *** (1959, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott) – Classic Movie Review 9207

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1958 Western comedy film Alias Jesse James teams Bob Hope with Rhonda Fleming, reunited after The Great Lover (1949). And, plus, Hope was powerful enough as producer to gather a dazzling […]

Dec, 31

La balance **** (1982, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 9,206 

French actress Nathalie Baye won four César Awards for Every Man for Himself (1980), Strange Affair (1981), La Balance (1982), and The Young Lieutenant (2005), Richard Berry stars as L’inspecteur Mathias Palouzi, an unscrupulous cop (un flic), who forces Paris […]

Dec, 30

Little Men ** (1940, Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon) – Classic Movie Review 9205

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1940 Little Men is a quick, well-produced remake of Phil Rosen’s 1935 film Little Men, and is marginally better, with Kay Francis starring as Jo March, the main character in Louisa […]

Dec, 30

Alamo Bay **** (1985, Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen) – Classic Movie Review 9204

Director Louis Malle tackles the meaty socially conscious theme of racial conflict between Vietnamese immigrants and a fishing bay town community in Texas in his 1985 drama Alamo Bay. The telling of the story, inspired […]

Dec, 30

The Seven Little Foys **** (1955, Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 9203

Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1955 Technicolor and VistaVision biographical comedy drama The Seven Little Foys stars Bob Hope, who is just the man to play the legendary vaudeville comic Eddie Foy, in this engaging biopic […]

Dec, 30

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