Derek Winnert

The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] *** (1952, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 8500

Director Compton Bennett’s 1952 black and white war adventure drama The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] stars Trevor Howard as disliked ship’s captain Lieutenant Commander Hugh Alginon Fraser, who struggles with his crew but wins […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

The Dark Crystal **** (1982, voices of Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Brian Muehl, Steve Whitmire) – Classic Movie Review 8499

The Muppets’ men Jim Henson and Frank Oz create a convincing and magical universe of puppets with this elaborate, magical family fantasy adventure that soon casts quite a spell in the 1982 British film The […]

May, 26 · in Reviews

Dancing with Crime *** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Barry K Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 8498

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1947 mystery crime drama Dancing with Crime is an interesting attempt at a post-war British quickie in the American crime melodrama style starring real-life couple Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim as […]

May, 26

The Dancing Masters *** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Matt Briggs, Allan Lane, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 8497

Though director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1943 comedy The Dancing Masters is not the best of Laurel and Hardy, there is plenty of busy story taken at a fast lick and Stan and Ollie are […]

May, 26

Rocketman **** (2019, Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton stars in Rocketman (2019) in a bravura performance as Reg Dwight, who nicks his new first name from his band mate Elton Dean and supposedly his new surname from John Lennon, though apparently […]

May, 25

Jitterbugs *** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine) – Classic Movie Review 8496

Director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1943 Jitterbugs is an excellent late-period Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy, their best at 20th Century Fox after parting company with producer Hal Roach. Ollie pretends to be a […]

May, 25

Pretty Maids All in a Row *** (1971, Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 8495

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the screenplay for director Roger Vadim’s weird but watchable 1971 black comedy-thriller Pretty Maids All in a Row, offering a strange-brew mélange of laughs, sex and violence. […]

May, 25

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