Derek Winnert

Laughter in the Dark *** (1969, Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Drouot) – Classic Movie Review 8558

Vladimir Nabokov’s novel of suspense and cruelty makes an intriguing entry in the British film noir stakes for director Tony Richardson in his 1969 thriller Laughter in the Dark. Writer Edward Bond turns the original’s […]

Jun, 06 · in Uncategorized

Gasbags *** (1941, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox) – Classic Movie Review 8557

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 zany British comedy Gasbags is a wartime slapstick farce from the Crazy Gang, with a fairly imaginative script by the talented Val Guest and Marriott Edgar, the pair who wrote Will […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

Lepke *** (1975, Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan) – Classic Movie Review 8556

Director Menahem Golan’s 1974 true crime Israeli-American film Lepke is a typically Seventies violent gangster movie in the Thirties Warner Bros-style, with an inspired performance by Tony Curtis, cast against type, giving an interesting account […]

Jun, 05

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn *** (1956, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery) – Classic Movie Review 8555

Director Joseph Sterling’s 1956 surreal spoof comedy The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn is a precious memento of BBC radio’s The Goon Show, in which Peter Sellers does his deaf and senile character Henry Crun […]

Jun, 04

Down Among the Z Men *** (1952, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 8554

Director Maclean Rogers’s 1952 British radio spinoff comedy Down Among the Z Men [Stand Easy] finds BBC Fifties radio’s zany Goon Show comics Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine are stuck down […]

Jun, 04

South Sea Woman ** (1953, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 8553

Between two of his most important movies, Come Back Little Sheba and From Here to Eternity, the great Burt Lancaster went coasting in director Arthur Lubin’s 1953 time-filler adventure South Sea Woman, though Lancaster and […]

Jun, 04

The Lawnmower Man ** (1992, Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright) – Classic Movie Review 8552

Director Brett Leonard’s 1992 sci-fi horror movie The Lawnmower Man stars Jeff Fahey as the simple-minded gardener Jobe Smith, who is used as a guinea pig for Dr Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan)’s experiments with virtual […]

Jun, 04

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