Derek Winnert

That’s My Wife **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Aubrey) – Classic Movie Review 8572

‘There has been a serious misunderstanding in the Hardy family.’ Stan Laurel masquerades as Mrs Hardy to please Oliver Hardy’s rich uncle (William Courtwright) in director Lloyd French’s very inventive and funny 1929 two reeler […]

Jun, 09 · in Reviews

County Hospital *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, May Wallace, William Austin) – Classic Movie Review 8571

‘Mr Hardy fell on his leg and was laid up for two months. Mr Laurel fell on his head and hadn’t felt better in years.’ Director James Parrott’s 1932 Hal Roach Studios black and white […]

Jun, 09 · in Reviews

Theatre of Death [Blood Fiend] *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Lelia Goldoni) – Classic Movie Review 8570

Director Samuel Gallu’s 1966 British horror movie Theatre of Death [Blood Fiend] stars Christopher Lee as Philippe Darvas, a supercilious director of Grand Guignol horror plays at The Theatre of Death in Paris, and he […]

Jun, 09

Countdown *** (1967, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8569

Director Robert Altman concentrates more on human emotions than the special effects in his 1967 sci-fi  thriller Countdown and the result is always fascinating if a little earnest and uncommercial, though that isn’t necessarily a […]

Jun, 09

That Cold Day in the Park **** (1969, Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton) – Classic Movie Review 8568

Director Robert Altman handles the strange psycho-pathological material in his fascinating 1969 psycho sexual drama That Cold Day in the Park meticulously and rigorously (and it foreshadows his other striking but less popular films like […]

Jun, 08

That Sinking Feeling **** (1979, Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, John Gordon Sinclair, John Hughes, Tom Mannion, Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco) – Classic Movie Review 8567

Writer-producer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1979 That Sinking Feeling is a bright, funny, light-hearted comedy in which four unemployed Glaswegian scallywag teens – Ronnie (Robert Buchanan), Wal (Billy Greenlees), Andy (John Gordon Sinclair) and Vic (John Hughes) […]

Jun, 08

That Lucky Touch ** (1975, Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Raf Vallone, Sydne Rome, Donald Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 8566

Director Christopher Miles’s modestly engaging, lightweight 1975 romantic comedy That Lucky Touch stars Roger Moore as European arms dealer Michael Scott, who is courted by liberated lefty journalist Julia Richardson (Susannah York), who wants a […]

Jun, 08

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