Derek Winnert

Air Raid Wardens ** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 8516

Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1943 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Air Raid Wardens stars Stan and Ollie as bankrupt fertiliser dealers, pet-shop owners and cycle store owners, who are turned down for armed service in […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] ***** (1937, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault) – Classic Movie Review 8515

Director Marcel Carné’s 1937 French pre-war classic Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] is a marvellously funny and brilliantly inventive black comedy, taken at a breathlessly fast slapstick lick. It is graced with stupendous performances by […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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