Derek Winnert

The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King) – Classic Movie Review 7365

Directors Hal Roach and Charles [Charley] Rogers’s 1933 comedy The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s first and perhaps best operetta send-up (in this case of Daniel F Auber’s 1830 comic […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Pardon Us *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Walter Long, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7364

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have fun sending up prison movies in ‘THEIR FIRST FULL LENGTH TALKING PICTURE’. Director James Parrott’s hour-long 1931 black and white comedy Pardon Us (aka Jailbirds) finds Stan Laurel and […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Mother Carey’s Chickens *** (1938, Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Fay Bainter, James Ellison, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7363

Director Rowland V Lee’s attractive 1938 RKO black and white Mother Carey’s Chickens is notable in itself but especially as it stars a wonderful cast – Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Fay Bainter, James Ellison, Walter […]

Jul, 28

The Sure Thing **** (1985, John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins, Lisa Jane Persky, Viveca Lindfors, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 7362

Director Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, Misery) delivers surefire laughs and charm in the 1985 gem The Sure Thing, a beautifully written Thirties-style throwback romantic comedy yarn, going back as far as It Happened […]

Jul, 28

A-Haunting We Will Go *** (1942, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7361

Director Alfred Werker’s 1942 20th Century Fox black and white comedy A-Haunting We Will Go stars the essential Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as Stan and Ollie, who are conned by a group of swindling crooks (including […]

Jul, 28

Andy Hardy Comes Home ** (1958, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Patricia Breslin, Sara Haden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7360

Director Howard W Koch’s 1958 Andy Hardy Comes Home is a rather sad, belated, out-of-time sequel to the Thirties and Forties Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), filmed a decade too late, with a 40-something Andy Hardy […]

Jul, 28

By Candlelight *** (1933, Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Revier) – Classic Movie Review 7359

Frankenstein director James Whale has a whale of a time with his 1934 classy little screwball romantic comedy By Candlelight about a lady’s maid, Marie (Elissa Landi), who meets a butler/ valet Josef (Paul Lukas) on a train […]

Jul, 28

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