Derek Winnert

Let’s Make It Legal *** (1951, Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey, Zachary Scott, Robert Wagner, Barbara Bates, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7600

Let’s Make It Legal (1951) is a fairly bubbly and charming Fifties romantic comedy film, with a good cast giving it a boost. Claudette Colbert and Macdonald Carey star, and Marilyn Monroe has a brief […]

Sep, 20 · in Reviews

The Fireball ** (1950, Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler, Ralph Dumke, Milburn Stone, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7599

‘Rooney Runs Riot on the Roller Raceways!’ Director Tay Garnett’s 1950 The Fireball stars Mickey Rooney as orphan Johnny Casar, who flees from Father O’Hara (Pat O’Brien)’s orphanage school, becomes a champion star on roller skates, […]

Sep, 20 · in Reviews

Secret People ** (1952, Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Goldner) – Classic Movie Review 7598

Director Thorold Dickinson’s dark and downbeat 1951 thriller Secret People is a sluggishly handled, unusually colourless Ealing Studios drama of intrigue, which suffers from a lack of suspense, a surfeit of ideology and a low […]

Sep, 19

The Chimp **** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, Dorothy Granger, Tiny Sandford) – Classic Movie Review 7596

‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled at the beauties of circus life – Mr Laurel never got further than the monkey cage.’ After working for a circus for seven weeks of rain and with no business […]

Sep, 19

Imagine *** (1972, John Lennon, Yoko Ono) – Classic Movie Review 7597

Writer-producer-director-editor-stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s surreal 1972 music film and pseudo-documentary Imagine is poignant home movie footage of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from Lennon’s historic Imagine album and Yoko’s […]

Sep, 18

Angora Love **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7595

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy upset their suspicious landlord (Edgar Kennedy) and another house-guest (Charlie Hall) when they hide a stray goat in their ‘no pets’ lodgings after they hear that the pet-shop owner thinks that […]

Sep, 18

The Angry Hills ** (1959, Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Müller) – Classic Movie Review 7594

The 1959 The Angry Hills stars the always-watchable Robert ‘Old Snake Eyes’ Mitchum in a Leon Uris World War Two-set wartime thriller under ace film-maker Robert Aldrich’s cannily stalwart direction. But, with these people, you […]

Sep, 18

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