Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Kings Row ***** (1942, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains, Betty Field, Harry Davenport, Charles Coburn, Nancy Coleman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 7303

Director Sam Wood’s 1942 American ensemble romantic mystery drama for Warner Bros is a stirring panorama of the troubled people and fractured lives in a Middle America town before 1914. Kings Row is one of […]

Jul, 17 · in Uncategorized

Storm Warning *** (1951, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 7,302

Ginger Rogers stands up to the Ku Klux Klan as only she can, with Doris Day as her sister, in the 1951 film noir Storm Warning. Ronald Reagan plays a do-gooding District Attorney. Director Stuart […]

Jul, 17 · in Reviews

The Bridal Path ** (1959, Bill Travers, Bernadette O’Farrell, George Cole, Duncan Macrae, Gordon Jackson, Patricia Bredin, Fiona Clyne) – Classic Movie Review 7301

Bill Travers stars in director Frank Launder’s 1959 British comedy The Bridal Path as rough-and-ready young Scottish islander Ewan McEwan, who heads off to the mainland to find a perfect bride, but along the bridal path […]

Jul, 16

Double Bunk ** (1961, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James, Liz Frazer, Dennis Price, Reginald Beckwith, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 7300

Ian Carmichael and Janette Scott star as the just married couple Jack and Peggy who buy a rundown houseboat on the River Thames in writer-director C M Pennington-Richards’s mild and minor 1961 black-and-white British farce Double […]

Jul, 16

Desert Mice ** (1959, Alfred Marks, Sidney James, Patricia Bredin, Dick Bentley, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, Marius Goring, Reginald Beckwith, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 7299

Producer/ director Michael Relph’s 1959 British film Desert Mice is a jolly Fifties comedy, predating TV’s similarly themed long-running hit sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, about a wartime concert party performing for British soldiers […]

Jul, 16

Left Right and Centre *** (1959, Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Gordon Harker, George Benson, Jack Hedley) – Classic Movie Review 7,298

‘You’ll Howl When SEX and POLITICS Collide Head On!’ Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1959 British black and white satirical comedy Left Right and Centre tells a tale we all know quite well – about an English television celebrity […]

Jul, 16

Larceny, Inc *** (1942, Edward G Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Edward Brophy, Anthony Quinn, Jack Carson, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7297

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1942 Warner Bros crime comedy Larceny, Inc stars Edward G Robinson, who gives yet another bright and breezy performance in this lighthearted gangster spoof based on Laura Perelman and S J Perelman’s […]

Jul, 16

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