Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

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The Spiral Staircase * (1975, Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Mildred Dunnock, Gayle Hunnicutt, Elaine Stritch) – Classic Movie Review 9,623

The 1975 British horror mystery thriller film The Spiral Staircase is a close but modernised and unhappy remake of the 1946 classic American chiller. Director Peter Collinson’s 1975 British horror mystery thriller The Spiral Staircase […]

Apr, 09

Topaze **** (1951, Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière, Marcel Vallée, Jacqueline Pagnol, Pierre Larquey) – Classic Movie Review 9520

Marcel Pagnol directs the 1951 French comedy film Topaze, remaking his own 1936 film Topaze, based on his 1928 play of the same name, again as Topaze, this time starring Fernandel and Hélène Perdrière. It […]

Mar, 17

Mr Topaze *** (1961, Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 9517

Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr Topaze, starring in an old role previously played by John Barrymore in Topaze back in 1933, as an upright French school teacher fired when he […]

Mar, 16

The Littlest Rebel *** (1935, Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson, Guinn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9354

For director David Butler’s 1935 family comedy drama The Littlest Rebel, 20th Century Fox put their feisty little seven-year-old star Shirley Temple in another opulent American Civil War melodrama (after The Little Colonel rang the […]

Feb, 07

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse * (1962, Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 9301

Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]

Jan, 25

Anything Goes ** (1956, Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris) – Classic Movie Review 9277

Anything goes certainly here in director Robert Lewis’s 1956 Paramount Pictures remake of Anything Goes, and the first thing that went in Sidney Sheldon’s script is the plot of the great Broadway show by Guy […]

Jan, 18

Little Men ** (1940, Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon) – Classic Movie Review 9205

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1940 Little Men is a quick, well-produced remake of Phil Rosen’s 1935 film Little Men, and is marginally better, with Kay Francis starring as Jo March, the main character in Louisa […]

Dec, 30

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