Derek Winnert

The Iron Petticoat ** (1956, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Noelle Middleton, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 8,210

The bizarre and unexpected star teaming of Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn fails to inject many laughs into director Ralph Thomas’s good-natured but slack Ninotchka-like 1956 comedy film The Iron Petticoat. Alas, the bizarre and […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

Great Catherine * (1968, Jeanne Moreau, Peter O’Toole, Zero Mostel, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 8209

Director Gordon Flemyng and producer Jules Buck’s struggling 1968 British historical comedy drama Great Catherine stars Jeanne Moreau, Peter O’Toole, Zero Mostel and Jack Hawkins. George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 one-act play is too flimsy for an […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

A Royal Scandal *** (1945, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 8208

Director Otto Preminger’s lush 1945 black and white costume drama A Royal Scandal [Czarina], with more than a few splashes of humour, stars Tallulah Bankhead as 18th century Russian queen Catherine the Great who shows […]

Mar, 06

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult *** (1994, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O J Simpson) – Classic Movie Review 8207

Director Peter Segal’s 1993 daffy crazy comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult is an undemanding, hit-and-miss second sequel, a bit low on pace and verve, but with enough laughs (some in bad taste), […]

Mar, 06

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear **** (1991, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O J Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 8206

Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]

Mar, 06

Cairo *** (1942, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen, Grant Mitchell, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dooley Wilson, Dennis Hoey, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 8205

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]

Mar, 06

Wind Across the Everglades *** (1958, Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden) – Classic Movie Review 8204

‘NOTHING LIKE IT SINCE ‘GRAPES OF WRATH’. Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 romantic adventure drama Wind Across the Everglades is based on the story Across the Everglades by Budd Schulberg. It is made by Schulberg Productions, […]

Mar, 06

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