Derek Winnert

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Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid *** (1982, Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Reni Santoni, George Gaynes) – Classic Movie Review 6896

Director Carl Reiner’s enjoyable 1983 black and white parody movie stars Steve Martin in a fun, likeable modern-day film noir spoof comedy in which detective Rigby Reardon (Martin) is sent on a chase by sexy […]

Apr, 07

The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man ** (1951, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Arthur Franz, Nancy Guild, Adele Jergens) – Classic Movie Review 5587

Director Charles Lamont’s 1951 comedy is a fairly lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with the expected plot (‘suggested by H G Wells’) and decent effects, particularly in the vivacious and pacy […]

Jun, 12

Repossessed * (1990, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 4886

Writer-director Bob Logan somehow managed in 1990 to persuade Linda Blair back to her most famous moment and she gleefully sends up both herself and The Exorcist (1973) movie that once made her world renowned. […]

Jan, 14

One Spy Too Many *** (1966, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G Carroll, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Yvonne Craig) – Classic Movie Review 4,744

The U.N.C.L.E. men are here again in a third spinoff from the hit Sixties TV show, as agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) are threatened by an Edgar Allan Poe-like pendulum, […]

Dec, 03

The Spy with My Face *** (1965, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Senta Berger, Leo G Carro ll, Sharon Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 4,742

A suitably incredible plot has spy chief Mr Waverly (Leo G Carroll) sending Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuyakin (David McCallum) to Switzerland to battle THRUSH enemy agents, in the second Man from U.N.C.L.E. […]

Dec, 03

The Prisoner of Zenda *½ (1979, Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell) – Classic Movie Review 4653

Director Richard Quine mistakenly remakes Anthony Hope’s Ruritanian classic as a zany slapstick comedy with the tamest of results. Peter Sellers, however, puts a lot of energy into his two major roles of lisping rightful […]

Nov, 14

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