Derek Winnert

Zotz! ** (1962, Tom Poston, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Cecil Kellaway, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki, Julia Meade) – Classic Movie Review 8005

Zotz! ** (1962, Tom Poston, Fred Clark, Jim Backus, Cecil Kellaway, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki, Julia Meade) – Classic Movie Review 8005

Director William Castle’s soppy 1962 fantasy comedy chiller Zotz! is not one of his best movies, with only the slightest elements of horror and faint moments of humour breaking through from the gloom. Tom Poston […]

Jan, 13 · in Reviews

The Swinger ** (1966, Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Horace McMahon, Yvonne Romain) – Classic Movie Review 8004

Ann-Margret stars in producer-director George Sidney’s Technicolor comedy The Swinger (1966) as Minnesota hick girl Kelly Olsen, who fakes sizzling memoirs to make a hit with magazine editors, particularly Ric Colby (Tony Franciosa) and Sir Hubert Charles […]

Jan, 12 · in Reviews

Swing Your Lady ** (1938, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Louise Fazenda, Penny Singleton, Nat Pendleton, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 8003

Want to see Humphrey Bogart in a musical? Bogart stars in director Ray Enright’s 1938 Swing Your Lady as wrestling promoter Ed Hatch, who comes to the Ozarks and has a money-spinning idea: pit simple-minded […]

Jan, 12

The Love Lottery ** (1954, David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 8002

Director Charles Crichton’s 1953 The Love Lottery stars David Niven as adored Hollywood star film actor Rex Allerton – a babe magnet – who relocates to a remote Italian village where he is talked into being the […]

Jan, 12

The Divided Heart *** (1954, Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox, Geoffrey Keen, Liam Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 8001

‘Wars leave behind a stain of shame which the centuries will not wash away,’ says the First Justice. Director Charles Crichton’s 1954 Ealing Studios and Michael Balcon Productions black and white drama The Divided Heart is […]

Jan, 12

The Upside ** (2017, Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman) – Movie Review

The Upside is a slightly uneasy and uncomfortable, but not unentertaining comedy drama, with awkward casting and a rough-hewn, sharp-edged script, which gets some laughs and a few tears, but loses out on the truthful […]

Jan, 12

The Third Secret ** (1964, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Pamela Franklin, Rachel Kempson, Diane Cilento Margaret Leighton, Paul Rogers, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 8000

Director Charles Crichton’s 1964 The Third Secret is a muddled and ponderous suspense thriller that is comprised of a number of short stories joined together by the plot device of having a prominent psychiatrist’s daughter […]

Jan, 11

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