Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] *** (1978, Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 7858

Director Monte Hellman’s 1978 China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] is a very intriguing Spaghetti Western, with a great performance by Fabio Testi as Clayton Drumm, a condemned gunfighter who will win a pardon if […]

Nov, 30

More American Graffiti ** (1979, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Richard Bradford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 7857

Director Bill W L Norton’s 1979 sequel More American Graffiti is a slightly disappointing follow-up to the brilliant American Graffiti (1973), with most of the cast returning to tell the tale of the following five […]

Nov, 30

Back from the Dead ** (1957, Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 7856

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1957 black and white horror movie Back from the Dead is a preposterous shocker, but given a big lift with a spirited performance by Peggie Castle as Mandy Hazelton Anthony, a […]

Nov, 30

The Beast in the Cellar *** (1971, Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, Tessa Wyatt, John Hamill, T P McKenna, Dafydd Harvard, Vernon Dobtcheff) – Classic Movie Review 7855

Writer-director James Kelley’s 1971 British horror movie The Beast in the Cellar stars the formidable team of Flora Robson and Beryl Reid as Joyce and Ellie Ballantyne, a couple of dear old spinsters who have […]

Nov, 30

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