Derek Winnert

Rattle of a Simple Man *** (1964, Harry H Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird, Charles Dyer, Michael Medwin, Hugh Futcher) – Classic Movie Review 7305

Director Muriel Box’s 1964 British comedy Rattle of a Simple Man stars Harry H Corbett, who gives an appealing turn as the naive, timid Manchester soccer fan Percy, a 39-year-old virgin who is persuaded by […]

Jul, 18 · in Reviews

Knute Rockne All American **** (1940, Pat O’Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 7304

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1940 sports drama Knute Rockne All American (also known as Knockout: A Modern Hero) is an enjoyable, if hokey biography of America’s legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute ‘Rock’ Rockne (played by […]

Jul, 17 · in Reviews

Kings Row ***** (1942, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Claude Rains, Betty Field, Harry Davenport, Charles Coburn, Nancy Coleman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 7303

Director Sam Wood’s 1942 American ensemble romantic mystery drama for Warner Bros is a stirring panorama of the troubled people and fractured lives in a Middle America town before 1914. Kings Row is one of […]

Jul, 17

Storm Warning *** (1951, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 7,302

Ginger Rogers stands up to the Ku Klux Klan as only she can, with Doris Day as her sister, in the 1951 film noir Storm Warning. Ronald Reagan plays a do-gooding District Attorney. Director Stuart […]

Jul, 17

The Bridal Path ** (1959, Bill Travers, Bernadette O’Farrell, George Cole, Duncan Macrae, Gordon Jackson, Patricia Bredin, Fiona Clyne) – Classic Movie Review 7301

Bill Travers stars in director Frank Launder’s 1959 British comedy The Bridal Path as rough-and-ready young Scottish islander Ewan McEwan, who heads off to the mainland to find a perfect bride, but along the bridal path […]

Jul, 16

Double Bunk ** (1961, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James, Liz Frazer, Dennis Price, Reginald Beckwith, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 7300

Ian Carmichael and Janette Scott star as the just married couple Jack and Peggy who buy a rundown houseboat on the River Thames in writer-director C M Pennington-Richards’s mild and minor 1961 black-and-white British farce Double […]

Jul, 16

Desert Mice ** (1959, Alfred Marks, Sidney James, Patricia Bredin, Dick Bentley, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, Marius Goring, Reginald Beckwith, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 7299

Producer/ director Michael Relph’s 1959 British film Desert Mice is a jolly Fifties comedy, predating TV’s similarly themed long-running hit sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, about a wartime concert party performing for British soldiers […]

Jul, 16

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