Derek Winnert

The Bohemian Girl *** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 7368

Directors James W Horne and Charles [Charley] R Rogers’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl is another of their operetta send-ups, following The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] (1933). Laurel and Hardy […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Our Relations **** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Alan Hale Sr, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 7367

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy movie Our Relations is a clever, funny comedy of endless errors from a story by W W Jacobs, The Money Box, with many fine sequences, especially […]

Jul, 29 · in Reviews

Sons of the Desert [Fraternally Yours] ***** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase) – Classic Movie Review 7366

Director William A Seiter’s 1934 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert [Fraternally Yours], an extended remake of one of their silent shorts, the 1928 We Faw Down [We Slip Up], is one of […]

Jul, 29

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

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

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

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