Derek Winnert

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo ** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 8689

Alas, director Eugene Forde’s 1938 thriller Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is Warner Oland’s last Chan adventure, and it is hard to get excited about its plot concerning missing metallurgic bonds while Chan is on […]

Jul, 09 · in Reviews

Charlie Chan at the Race Track *** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8688

‘Oh gee, Pop, when are we going to arrest somebody?’ asks Charlie Chan (Warner Oland)’s jumping-jack Number One Son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke). Has a prize horse kicked to death its rich owner just before […]

Jul, 09 · in Reviews

Alice *** (1990, Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, Keye Luke, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Bernadette Peters, Cybill Shepherd, Julie Kavner, Gwen Verdon, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8687

Writer-director Woody Allen’s enjoyable 1990 romantic comedy Alice once again stars Mia Farrow, as Alice Tate, an uptight rich New York City housewife who meets and falls for handsome sax player Joe Ruffalo (Joe Mantegna), […]

Jul, 09

Divorce Italian Style **** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 8686

Packed with comic passion, Pietro Germi’s thoroughly entertaining 1961 Italian commedia nera [black comedy] film Divorce Italian Style [Divorzio all’Italiana] stars the indispensable Marcello Mastroianni as a poverty-stricken Sicilian aristocrat, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, who wants […]

Jul, 09

The Divorce of Lady X **** (1938, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 8685

Director Tim Whelan’s fun and carefree 1938 British screwball romantic comedy drama The Divorce of Lady X stars Laurence Olivier as barrister Everard Logan, a divorce lawyer who thinks widowed Lord Steele (Morton Selten)’s daughter […]

Jul, 08
The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

Director Val Guest’s brutal and controversial British exploitation movie for Hammer Films – the 1958 The Camp on Blood Island – shows the Brits in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaya trying desperately […]

Jul, 08

Campbell’s Kingdom ** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice, Athene Seyler, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 8683

Director Ralph Thomas’s rugged attempt to make a British Western set in the Canadian Rockies – the 1957 Campbell’s Kingdom – stars Dirk Bogarde as noble Englishman Bruce Campbell, who is the claimant to a […]

Jul, 08

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