Derek Winnert

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Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

The Chimp **** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, Dorothy Granger, Tiny Sandford) – Classic Movie Review 7,596

The 1932 short film The Chimp is a delightfully funny three-reeler from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who hilariously wreck the circus and share a bed with Ethel the gorilla. ‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled […]

Sep, 19

Street Angel **** (1928, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston) – Classic Movie Review 7537

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]

Sep, 03

Clownhouse ** (1989, Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6954

Writer-director Victor Salva’s first feature Clownhouse is a creepy 1989 American slasher horror film with a fairly high body count. Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell (in his film debut) play Casey and his older brothers Geoffrey […]

Apr, 22

Three Ring Circus ** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Joanne Dru, Zsa Zsa Gabor) – Classic Movie Review 6622

Director Joseph Pevney’s passable 1954 minor comedy movie Three Ring Circus turned out to be one of the film star partnership duo Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis’s weakest efforts. The story and screenplay are written by […]

Jan, 30

The Greatest Showman *** (2017, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson) – Movie Review

Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron bring much style and charm to debut director Michael Gracey’s cheesy but pleasant and appealing musical based on the life of the American showmen Phineas Barnum and Phillip Carlyle. Those who like […]

Jan, 02

Legend of the Werewolf ** (1975, Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle David Rintoul) – Classic Movie Review 6208

Director Freddie Francis’s moderate British 1975 horror movie stars Peter Cushing as the police surgeon/ coroner Professor Paul, a lycanthrope expert who turns detective and follows the werewolf trail of grisly murders in 19th century France […]

Nov, 08

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