Derek Winnert

Valentino ** (1951, Eleanor Parker, Anthony Dexter, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 7865

Director Lewis Allen’s 1951 Technicolor adventure drama biopic Valentino is misleadingly billed as the life story of film legend Rudolph Valentino and stars near lookalike Anthony Dexter, who at least looks right in his film debut as Rudolph Valentino, in […]

Dec, 01 · in Reviews

The Brigand ** (1952, Anthony Dexter, Anthony Quinn, Gale Robbins, Jody Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7864

Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]

Dec, 01 · in Reviews

The Bespoke Overcoat ***** (1955, David Kossoff, Alfie Bass, Alf Dean, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 7863

The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]

Dec, 01

Berth Marks *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7862

‘Mr Hardy told Mr Laurel to meet him at Santa Fe Station at a quarter of ten – but Mr Laurel became confused and thought he meant 9:45.’ Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 Berth Marks […]

Dec, 01

They Go Boom! *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin) – Classic Movie Review 7861

‘Mr Hardy had the sniffles – his carburetor hadn’t been right for days and days.’ Stan Laurel ministers to Oliver Hardy, who has got a terrible cold, but naturally he soon nearly wrecks the place, […]

Dec, 01

They Got Me Covered *** (1943, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lenore Aubert, Donald MacBride, Walter Catlett, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 7860

It’s Bob Hope versus the Nazis in director David Butler’s amusing, little-known 1943 wartime Washington spy comedy thriller They Got Me Covered about a Gestapo espionage ring planning sabotage. It is a surprise subject for […]

Dec, 01

They Made Me a Criminal *** (1939, John Garfield, Claude Rains, May Robson, Gloria Dickson, The Dead End Kids) – Classic Movie Review 7859

Warner Bros put their big star John Garfield in the 1939 drama They Made Me a Criminal, a remake of 1933’s The Life of Jimmy Dolan, as Johnnie, a boxer on the run from the […]

Nov, 30

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