Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

There Goes the Bride ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 8105

Jessie Matthews’s first major film roles were in Out of the Blue (1931) and then two films directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932), a British screwball black and white romantic musical comedy hit, also […]

Feb, 07

Midshipman Easy *** (1935, Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate, Roger Livesey) – Classic Movie Review 8104

The Napoleonic Wars are the background for the story in director Carol Reed’s eighteenth-century naval adventure in the 1935 movie Midshipman Easy [Men of the Sea in the US]. Hughie Green stars as the cocky […]

Feb, 07

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