Derek Winnert

Whoopee! **** (1930, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford, Spencer Charters, Albert Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 8562

Director Thornton Freeland’s 1930 early Technicolor musical Whoopee! showcases one of Eddie Cantor’s quintessential performances based on his hit Ziegfeld Broadway show as the hypochondriac shy guy Henry Williams, who makes romantic whoopee at a […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Down Argentine Way **** (1940, Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J Carrol Naish, Henry Stephenson, Nicholas Brothers) – Classic Movie Review 8561

Director Irving Cummings’s exuberant 1940 Latin American Technicolor musical Down Argentine Way is as light as air and twice as bracing. Above all, it is fun. With the world at war and audiences looking for […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Dirty Work **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Lucien Littlefield, Sam Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8,560

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on fine, exuberant form as chimney sweeps who experiment with a rejuvenation formula, in the 1933 comedy short film Dirty Work. Director Lloyd French’s 1933 two-reeler black and white […]

Jun, 06

Double Wedding **** (1937, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Florence Rice, John Beal) – Classic Movie Review 8559

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1937 screwball comedy Double Wedding stars the delightful William Powell and Myrna Loy in their seventh teaming, and they are totally at practised ease with the sophisticated slapstick of this very pleasing […]

Jun, 06

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

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

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

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