Derek Winnert

Rasputin and the Empress *** (1932, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Ralph Morgan, C Henry Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 7455

Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1932 MGM drama Rasputin and the Empress is famed in movie history as the only film in which sibling superstars John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore appeared together. But, unfortunately, there are only a couple of […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

The Garden of Allah *** (1927, Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovich, Marcel Vibert) – Classic Movie Review 7454

Director Rex Ingram’s 1927 romantic drama The Garden of Allah is the second – silent – film of Robert S Hichens’s 1904 British novel, most famous now in the 1936 version The Garden of Allah with Marlene […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

The Garden of Allah *** (1936, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, Tilly Losch, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Marshal, C Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Lucile Watson, Henry Brandon) – Classic Movie Review 7452

Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1936 The Garden of Allah is a remake of Rex Ingram’s 1927 silent romance The Garden of Allah, this time starring Marlene Dietrich as jaded hostess Domini Enfilden, who falls for runaway monk Boris […]

Aug, 17

Pack Up Your Troubles *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Mary Carr, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7453

Directors George Marshall and Raymond McCarey’s 1932 feature-length comedy Pack Up Your Troubles stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and is written for them by H M Walker. It is made for the Hal Roach […]

Aug, 17

Hollywood or Bust * (1956, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Anita Ekberg, Pat Crowley, Maxie Rosenbloom) – Classic Movie Review 7451

Director Frank Tashlin’s 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust is the final Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis movie together. Sadly, it is a feeble satirical farce on life in Hollywood, in which Martin plays the broke singer Steve Wiley, […]

Aug, 16

Goin’ to Town **** (1935, Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Ivan Lebedeff) – Classic Movie Review 7450

Director Alexander Hall’s 1935 comedy Western Goin’ to Town stars Mae West in a typical role as Cleo Borden, a former saloon dance hall gal who is left a ranch when her fiancé Buck Gonzales (Fred Kohler) is […]

Aug, 16

Hollywood Party *** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Mickey Mouse, The Three Stooges) – Classic Movie Review 7449

Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]

Aug, 16

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