Derek Winnert

Laughing Gravy **** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7523

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy evict their dog, Laughing Gravy, when their mean, dog-hating landlord (Charlie Hall) finds him and then spend the rest of the freezing night looking for him. The boys come up with […]

Aug, 31 · in Reviews

The Golden Age of Comedy **** (1957, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin) – Classic Movie Review 7522

Producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1957 cinema feature The Golden Age of Comedy is his deservedly highly popular first trawl through the silent era archives. It is a hilarious compilation of classic scenes from silent comedy, featuring […]

Aug, 31 · in Reviews

55 Days at Peking **** (1963, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland, Leo Genn, Robert Helpmann, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 7521

‘So Little Time’ (recorded by Andy Williams on CBS Records) is 55 Days at Peking’s hit song, but you will need plenty of time to settle down to producer Samuel Bronston and director Nicholas Ray’s vast-scale 1900 […]

Aug, 31

Custer of the West *** (1967, Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Robert Ryan, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin, Lawrence Tierney, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7520

Spectacular, brilliantly shot (in Technicolor by cinematographer Cecilio Paniagua) battle scenes highlight director Robert Siodmak’s adventurous 1967 international co-production Custer of the West, a thoughtful and intelligent biopic of George Armstrong Custer, the controversial US general, who […]

Aug, 31

Come Clean *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 7519

‘Mr Hardy holds that every husband should tell his wife the whole truth – Mr Laurel is crazy too.’ Director James W Horne 1931 comedy is a touching and sometimes hilarious Stan Laurel and Oliver […]

Aug, 31

Guest House Paradiso (1999, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Bill Nighy, Kate Ashfield, Steven O’Donnell, Fenella Fielding, Vincent Cassel, Simon Pegg) – Classic Movie Review 7518

Director Adrian Edmondson’s debut feature, the appalling Guest House Paradiso (1999), is a nasty, witless, incredibly vulgar British slapstick black comedy that wastes so much top Nineties talent as well as the audience’s time and […]

Aug, 31

Valdez Is Coming *** (1971, Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan) – Classic Movie Review 7517

The impressive 1971 Spanish-shot spaghetti Western film Valdez Is Coming stars Burt Lancaster in a character role as Bob Valdez, a Mexican-American sheriff who confronts a cattleman.  Director Edwin Sherin’s impressive 1971 Spanish-shot spaghetti Western […]

Aug, 30

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