Derek Winnert

Dragnet **** (1954, Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Stacy Harris, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 8514

In director Jack Webb’s excellent little 1954 film noir-style crime thriller Dragnet, the admirable Webb makes his mark as star actor in a naturalistic performance as the smug, cocky cop Sergeant Joe Friday, and the […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

Flying Elephants ** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Viola Richard) – Classic Movie Review 8513

‘6000 years ago all men were forced to marry or work on the rock pile – that’s why it was called the Stone Age.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star as battling Stone Age cavemen […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

The Flying Deuces *** (1939, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, James Finlayson, Charles Middleton, Jean Del Val, Crane Whitley) – Classic Movie Review 8512

Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1939 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces has its weaknesses and its downsides but it is still likeable and amusing for the most part, though, and it does […]

May, 29

Nothing But Trouble *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Boland, Henry O’Neill, Philip Merivale, David Leland) – Classic Movie Review 8511

Directors Sam Taylor and Bert Glazer’s 1944 comedy Nothing but Trouble is a rickety, late-period, slightly below-par outing from Laurel and Hardy – with an unusually daft plot about bad guy Prince Saul (Philip Merivale)’s […]

May, 29

Moss Rose *** (1947, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, Rhys Williams, George Zucco, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 8510

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1947 Moss Rose stars Victor Mature in a smooth, old-style murder melodrama, set in Hollywood’s usual idea of old foggy London, in which he plays Michael Drego, who is suspected of killing a […]

May, 28

Mosquito Squadron ** (1969, David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8509

The first outing for the RAF’s bouncing bomb, in which in 1944 the British attack a rocket base in France, is related in director Boris Sagal’s odd, very small-scale 1969 World War Two action thriller […]

May, 28

633 Squadron *** (1964, Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8508

Director Walter Grauman’s 1964 movie 633 Squadron stars Cliff Robertson (as Wing Commander Roy Grant) and an oddly cast George Chakiris (as Lieutenant Erik Bergman), who keep their tongues in their cheeks and their upper […]

May, 28

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