Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "mistaken identity"

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The Bullfighters *** (1945, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Margo Woode, Richard Lane, Carol Andrews, Diosa Costello, Ralph Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 7447

Director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1945 comedy The Bullfighters teams Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy for their last American film together, in which they star as American private detectives in Mexico City on the trail of […]

Aug, 16

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

By Candlelight *** (1933, Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Revier) – Classic Movie Review 7359

Frankenstein director James Whale has a whale of a time with his 1934 classy little screwball romantic comedy By Candlelight about a lady’s maid, Marie (Elissa Landi), who meets a butler/ valet Josef (Paul Lukas) on a train […]

Jul, 28

It Happened Tomorrow **** (1944, Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7191

Director René Clair’s 1944 American fantasy film It Happened Tomorrow stars Dick Powell as Larry Stevens, the lucky 1890s newspaper obituary writer and reporter who meets a mysterious  ghostly deceased newspaper man called Pop Benson (John Philliber) who has the […]

Jun, 19

Bachelor Mother **** (1939, Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 6465

Director Garson Kanin’s beguiling 1939 comedy stars Ginger Rogers as the shopgirl Polly Parrish and David Niven as David Merlin, the son of the department store owner (Charles Coburn). The two are assumed to be […]

Dec, 24

The Man with One Red Shoe *** (1985, Tom Hanks, James Belushi, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Charles Durning, Edward Herrmann) – Classic Movie Review 6175

The Americans remake yet another French comedy (the 1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) to provide a fun role for Tom Hanks as Richard, a violinist who cycles to his engagements, taken […]

Nov, 02

The Merry Widow ** (1952, Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner, Richard Haydn, Una Merkel, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott, Marcel Dalio, King Donovan, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5810

Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]

Jul, 24

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