Derek Winnert

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Girl Happy ** (1965, Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Harold J Stone, Gary Crosby, Nita Talbot, Mary Ann Mobley, Jackie Coogan, Joby Baker, Fabrizio Mioni) – Classic Movie Review 6234

Director Boris Sagal’s 1965 musical stars Elvis Presley, whose fans are kept happy despite a weak yarn about rock and roll band lead singer Rusty Wells (Presley). Rusty is hired by Chicago gangster Big Frank […]

Nov, 12

Love Me or Leave Me ***** (1955, Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2211

Director Charles Vidor’s 1955 musical drama Love Me or Leave Me is a brilliantly spirited, acidic-flavoured, fictionalised biopic of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting. Her fraught life, tricky career and tempestuous relationship with […]

Feb, 24

Victor Victoria **** (1982, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1462

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s bubbly and witty 1982 gender-bender musical remake of a 1933 German comedy, Viktor und Viktoria, is huge vivacious fun. It provides an ideal vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews as a struggling female soprano […]

Jul, 22

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