Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Leave ‘Em Laughing **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8551

‘What’s worse than an aching tooth at three in the morning. Two of them.’ There is much good-natured mirth when Stan Laurel goes to the dentist’s surgery, with predictable results when he and his mate […]

Jun, 04

The Lawyer *** (1970, Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert) – Classic Movie Review 8,550

Co-writer/ producer/ director Sidney J Furie’s entertaining 1970 crime drama mystery movie The Lawyer inspired the Seventies TV show Petrocelli, with Barry Newman creating the role of pushy Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer Tony Petrocelli, practising in […]

Jun, 04

Jim Thorpe – All-American ** (1951, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 8549

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1951 biographical sports drama Jim Thorpe – All American [Man of Bronze] stars Burt Lancaster as American-Indian track star Jim Thorpe, who wins both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics […]

Jun, 04

Hoffman *** (1970, Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch) – Classic Movie Review 8548

Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1970 British comedy Hoffman stars Peter Sellers as lonely office worker Benjamin Hoffman (Sellers), who is obsessed with the about-to-wed typist Janet Smith (Sinéad Cusack) and blackmails her into spending the week with […]

Jun, 04

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