Derek Winnert

It’s a Wonderful World **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 7916

‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

Safety Last! ***** (1923, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother) – Classic Movie Review 7915

Directors Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer’s grand 1923 silent classic movie Safety Last! stars Harold Lloyd and tells the effortlessly humorous tale of a country lad (Lloyd), involved in a romantic love affair with a […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

Young Tom Edison *** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 7914

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 biopic Young Tom Edison stars the 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, who is conscientious in the star part in this plush, well-crafted first part of MGM’s two-film biography of the inventor Thomas Alva […]

Dec, 17

Edison, the Man *** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 7913

Director Clarence Brown’s 1940 MGM drama Edison, the Man stars Spencer Tracy, who takes over from Mickey Rooney (who had played the inventor as a boy in the same year’s Young Tom Edison) to play […]

Dec, 16

Upstairs and Downstairs ***(1959, Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, James Robertson Justice, Sidney James, Daniel Massey, Claudia Cardinale, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 7912

It is party time at the home of newly-weds Richard and Kate Barry (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) in director Ralph Thomas’s 1959 comedy Upstairs and Downstairs, a late-Fifties British sitcom-type study of the perils […]

Dec, 16

Uptown Girls ** (2003, Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Jesse Spencer, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Austin Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 7911

Producer-director Boaz Yakin’s 2003 Uptown Girls stars Brittany Murphy as socialite Molly Gunn, who falls on hard times and gets a job as nanny to an obnoxious eight-year-old, Ray (Dakota Fanning). Despite lots of dodgy […]

Dec, 16

The Pied Piper *** (1942, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J Carrol Naish Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner ) – Classic Movie Review 7910

Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]

Dec, 16

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