Derek Winnert

Green Hell ** (1940, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Alan Hale Sr, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7,421

James Whale’s 1940 jungle adventure film Green Hell stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, George Sanders and Vincent Price. Fairbanks Jr called it ‘hell’. Price said it was ‘one of the funniest films ever shot’. […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

Two Tars **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7420

Director James Parrott’s elaborate and inventive 1928 Two Tars is a tip-top Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 21-minute silent short film of madcap mayhem. Laurel and Hardy play the two tars, sailors on shore leave […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

Stolen Holiday *** (1937, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7419

Director Michael Curtiz’s impeccably presented, impressively played and well scripted 1937 romantic crime drama Stolen Holiday is based on a fictionalised version of the exploits of real-life Russian Jewish financier and conman Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky. […]

Aug, 09

Stavisky… *** (1974, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 7418

Director Alain Resnais’s arty 1974 film Stavisky looks great and there is good playing all round from a strong cast, with the stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Charles Boyer well used. But it is more successful […]

Aug, 08

The Boy from Oklahoma *** (1954, Will Rogers Jr, Nancy Olson, Lon Chaney Jr, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 7417

Director Michael Curtiz’s acceptable, simple-viewing 1954 comedy Western The Boy from Oklahoma stars Will Rogers Jr, who pleasantly takes over the easy-going, good-natured persona of his father as Tom Brewster, a correspondence-school law student who rides […]

Aug, 08

Sugarfoot *** (1951, Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey, Adele Jergens, S Z Sakall, Robert Warwick, Arthur Hunnicutt, John Hamilton, Hugh Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 7416

Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Sugarfoot is a grippingly told, action-packed Technicolor Western, set down Arizona way, and starring Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey and Adele Jergens. Fast moving and sure footed, it is written by Russell S Hughes (adaptation) from the novel […]

Aug, 08

Sugar Daddies *** (1927, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7415

Sweet silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy, and James Finlayson. Directors Fred Guiol and Leo McCarey and producer Hal Roach’s sweet 1927 […]

Aug, 08

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