Derek Winnert

The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy **** (1967, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase) – Classic Movie Review 7896

Turn down the rather irritating commentary and turn up the brightness for writer-producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1967 The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy, tasty chunks of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s silent comedies made at […]

Dec, 08 · in Uncategorized

The Big Parade ***** (1925, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7895

Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]

Dec, 08 · in Uncategorized

China Girl *** (1987, James Russo, Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, David Caruso, Russell Wong) – Classic Movie Review 7894

Director Abel Ferrara’s 1987 romantic crime drama China Girl stars Richard Panebianco and Sari Chang as a pizza boy from a Mafia family and a girl from a Chinese street gang, who fall in love, […]

Dec, 07

The Big Picture *** (1988, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Emily Longstreth, J T Walsh, Michael McKean, Teri Hatcher, Martin Short, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 7893

Director Christopher Guest’s winning 1988 comedy The Big Picture stars Kevin Bacon as award-winning film school graduate Nick Chapman, who arrives at the office of horrible movie boss Allen Habel (J T Walsh) desperate to make […]

Dec, 07

The Southerner **** (1945, Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi Percy Kilbride) – Classic Movie Review 7892

Zachary Scott stars as Sam Tucker, who battles to save his US Southern cotton farm from man and nature, in the 1945 drama The Southerner, a beautifully heartfelt, lyrical American film from esteemed French director […]

Dec, 07
Meet the People *** (1944, Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 7,891

Meet the People *** (1944, Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 7,891

  The 1944 romantic musical comedy film Meet the People stars Lucille Ball as a theatre actress who proves she is not a stuck-up star by taking on the war work of staging a musical […]

Dec, 07
A Southern Yankee [My Hero] *** (1948, Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 7890

A Southern Yankee [My Hero] *** (1948, Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 7890

Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1948 slapstick comedy A Southern Yankee [My Hero] stars Red Skelton as Aubrey Filmore, a silly St Louis bellhop who becomes a silly Yankee spy after being mistaken for The Grey Spider […]

Dec, 07

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