Derek Winnert

Stolen Holiday *** (1937, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7419

Director Michael Curtiz’s impeccably presented, impressively played and well scripted 1937 romantic crime drama Stolen Holiday is based on a fictionalised version of the exploits of real-life Russian Jewish financier and conman Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky. […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

Stavisky… *** (1974, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 7418

Director Alain Resnais’s arty 1974 film Stavisky looks great and there is good playing all round from a strong cast, with the stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Boyer well used. But it is more successful […]

Aug, 08 · in Reviews

The Boy from Oklahoma *** (1954, Will Rogers Jr, Nancy Olson, Lon Chaney Jr, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 7417

Director Michael Curtiz’s acceptable, simple-viewing 1954 comedy Western The Boy from Oklahoma stars Will Rogers Jr, who pleasantly takes over the easy-going, good-natured persona of his father as Tom Brewster, a correspondence-school law student who rides […]

Aug, 08

Sugarfoot *** (1951, Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey, Adele Jergens, S Z Sakall, Robert Warwick, Arthur Hunnicutt, John Hamilton, Hugh Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 7416

Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Sugarfoot is a grippingly told, action-packed Technicolor Western, set down Arizona way, and starring Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey and Adele Jergens. Fast moving and sure footed, it is written by Russell S Hughes (adaptation) from the novel […]

Aug, 08

Sugar Daddies *** (1927, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7415

Sweet silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy, and James Finlayson. Directors Fred Guiol and Leo McCarey and producer Hal Roach’s sweet 1927 […]

Aug, 08

Wrong Again *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dell Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7414

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on good form in director Leo McCarey’s bizarre and amusing 1929 20-minute two-reel farcical comedy Wrong Again, written by H M Walker (titles), based on a story by Lewis R […]

Aug, 08

From the Earth to the Moon * (1958, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Henry Daniell, Carl Esmond, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7413

Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]

Aug, 07

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