Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

I’ll Be Yours ** (1947, Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 7949

Deanna Durbin stars in the 1947 musical romantic comedy I’ll Be Yours as small-town young woman Louise Ginglebusher, who tries to help young lawyer George Prescott (Tom Drake) by getting him a job with rich […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

The Good Fairy **** (1935, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7948

Director William Wyler’s 1935 screwball romantic comedy The Good Fairy stars Margaret Sullavan as kindly but helpless young Budapest movie theatre worker Luisa ‘Lu’ Ginglebuscher, an orphaned usherette who attracts a quartet of admirers, in screen-writer […]

Dec, 28 · in Reviews

The Next Time We Love ***(1936, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 7947

Margaret Sullavan stars in director Edward H Griffith’s 1936 romance drama The Next Time We Love [Next Time We Live in GB] as an actress called Cicely Hunt Tyler who has to decide between her […]

Dec, 28

Next to No Time *** (1958, Kenneth More, Betsy Drake, John Welsh, Bessie Love, Harry Green, Reginald Beckwith, Patrick Barr, Maureen Connell, John Laurie, Sidney James, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 7946

The 1958 British comedy Next to No Time reunites star Kenneth More with his director on Genevieve, Henry Cornelius, and is based on the short story The Enchanted Hour by Paul Gallico, adapted for the […]

Dec, 27

The Galloping Major *** (1951, Basil Radford, Janette Scott, Hugh Griffith, Jimmy Hanley, René Ray, Joyce Grenfell, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 7945

Director Henry Cornelius’s 1951 character-led comedy The Galloping Major is Romulus Films’ attempt to get in the running with rival Ealing Studios, in which a mixed bag of British stereotypes is gathered together by sports-mad, […]

Dec, 27

Lease of Life ** (1954, Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott, Walter Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 7944

Director Charles Frend’s 1954 Ealing Studios drama Lease of Life stars Robert Donat, who tugs at the heartstrings as William Thorne, a kindly Yorkshire vicar in the village of Hinton St John who discovers that […]

Dec, 27

Gone Fishin’ ** (1997, Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Nick Brimble, Carol Kane, Willie Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7943

Lethal Weapon 2 co-stars Joe Pesci, Danny Glover give broad but genial performances as buddies Joe and Gus, on an ill-fated fishing trip to the Florida Everglades, a free trip they win a contest. Trouble follows […]

Dec, 24

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