Derek Winnert

The Bullfighters *** (1945, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Margo Woode, Richard Lane, Carol Andrews, Diosa Costello, Ralph Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 7447

Director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1945 comedy The Bullfighters teams Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy for their last American film together, in which they star as American private detectives in Mexico City on the trail of […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

Bullfighter and the Lady *** (1951, Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Katy Jurado, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard) – Classic Movie Review 7446

This interesting but mainly routine romantic action drama movie is intriguingly co-written, produced and directed by cult favourite Budd Boetticher. It is also intriguing that John Wayne was executive producer and John Ford an uncredited […]

Aug, 15 · in Reviews

Clue ** (1985, Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Lesley Ann Warren, Martin Mull) – Classic Movie Review 7445

Director Jonathan Lynn’s 1985 black-comedy movie  Clue is surely the first film to be based on a board game, which of course means trouble ahead as there is no story to base the movie on, […]

Aug, 15

Burglar * (1987, Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G W Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 7444

Director Hugh Wilson’s 1987 Burglar wastes Whoopi Goldberg as Bernice ‘Bernie’ Rhodenbarr, a cat burglar and bookstore owner, wanted for a murder that she has only witnessed. The dead body is found in a house […]

Aug, 15

Home from the Hill **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 7443

Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 film Home from the Hill is a satisfying chunk of American Southern romantic drama with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 American Metrocolor CinemaScope drama film Home from the […]

Aug, 14

5 Card Stud *** (1968, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 7442

Director Henry Hathaway’s strongly cast but saddle-sore 1968 Western gets a big lift from the eminently watchable, cucumber-cool performances of Dean Martin as gambler Van Morgan and Mitchum as a mysterious gun-carrying minister, the Rev Jonathan […]

Aug, 14

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ***** (1933, Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 7441

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s justly famous, hard-hitting 1933 Warner Bros’ crusading drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang stars Paul Muni as James Allen, an innocent man turned criminal who goes on the run […]

Aug, 13

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