Derek Winnert

The Battle of the Century **** (1927, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 7400

‘The big fight – ringside seats extended as far west as Honolulu!’ Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 silent short film The Battle of the Century stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, though the team […]

Aug, 05 · in Reviews

You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge) – Classic Movie Review 7399

Ollie, French horn player: ‘I wouldn’t mind training a seal or an elephant, but you’re hopeless!’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s 1928 short subject film You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] is one of Stan Laurel and […]

A Little Bit of Heaven *** (1940, Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, , C Aubrey Smith, Stuart Erwin, Nan Grey, Eugene Palette, Sig Arno) – Classic Movie Review 7398

Director Andrew Marton’s 1940 A Little Bit of Heaven is one of those Deanna Durbin-type musical prodigy pictures popular at the time, only this time it is the 14-year-old Gloria Jean who is airing the […]

Aug, 04

Tales of Manhattan *** (1942, Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Edward G Robinson, Paul Robeson) – Classic Movie Review 7397

It is a game of spotting the stars in director Julien Duvivier’s 1942 portmanteau fantasy anthology film Tales of Manhattan that tells of the effect a new, custom-made formal tailcoat has as it changes hands (or […]

Aug, 04

It’s a Gift ***** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol) – Classic Movie Review 7396

The 1934 comedy film It’s a Gift is not so much a movie as an excuse for a series of hilarious vaudeville knockabout gags, with W C Fields on his finest form as henpecked New […]

Aug, 04

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break [What a Man] ***** (1941, W C Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont ) – Classic Movie Review 7395

Director Edward F Cline’s 1941 comedy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break finds the great W C Fields on superb form as ‘The Great Man’ in this story (written by him as Otis Criblecoblis) […]

Aug, 03

If I Had My Way ** (1940, Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 7394

Director/ story writer David Butler’s tuneful 1940 musical If I Had My Way tells a weary, laborious yarn, with handling to match, although all the stars Bing Crosby, Charles Winninger, Gloria Jean and El Brendel […]

Aug, 03

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