Derek Winnert

They Drive by Night **** (1938, Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes) – Classic Movie Review 8111

Director Arthur B Woods’s gritty, noirish 1938 vintage British black-and-white crime thriller They Drive by Night is taken from James Curtis’s 1938 novel, with the author as one of the screen-writers (screenplay and dialogue), along […]

Feb, 09 · in Reviews

Tit for Tat **** (1935, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8110

Director Charles Rogers’s hilarious 1935 slapstick comedy short film Tit for Tat is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s only sequel, a continuation of 1934’s popular Them Thar Hills. This time Stan and Ollie open an […]

Feb, 09 · in Reviews

Them Thar Hills **** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Mae Busch) – Classic Movie Review 8109

Director Charles H Rogers [Charley Rogers]’s excellent, first rate 1934 short film Them Thar Hills stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on around their best form, with a fine support cast to back them. The […]

Feb, 09

If Beale Street Could Talk *** (2018, KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Diego Luna, Finn Wittrock, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein) – Movie Review

Writer-director Barry Jenkins’s drama If Beale Street Could Talk is based on James Baldwin’s novel about the newly engaged young Harlem woman Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne), who tries to prove her jailed fiancé Fonny (Stephan […]

Feb, 09

The Colossus of Rome [Il Colosso di Roma] [Hero of Rome] ** (1964, Gordon Scott, Gabriella Pallotta, Massimo Serato) – Classic Movie Review 8108

Director Giorgio Ferroni [Richard McNamara as English language director]’s 1964 The Colossus of Rome [Il Colosso di Roma] [Hero of Rome] [Arm of Fire] stars Gordon Scott as Mucius, Gabriella Pallotta as Clelia, Massimo Serato […]

Feb, 09

There Ain’t No Justice *** (1939, Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 8107

Director Penrose [Pen] Tennyson’s 1939 black and white British movie There Ain’t No Justice is a bright and flavoursome, if minor Ealing Studios sporting drama, with a punchy, appealing performance from Jimmy Hanley as Tommy […]

Feb, 08

The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] *** (1961, Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín, Ángel Aranda) – Classic Movie Review 8,106

Lea Massari is know for Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960) and Louis Malle’s Souffle au Coeur (1971) but her career also includes Sergio Leone’s debut The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] (1961). Co-writer/ director Sergio Leone’s 1961 Italian sword and sandal film The […]

Feb, 08

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