Derek Winnert

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Mother Wore Tights *** (1947, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 11,251

Betty Grable had been the reigning box office queen since the beginning of the 1940s, and scored her biggest triumph with director Walter Lang’s Technicolor musical Mother Wore Tights in 1947. This amiable story dissecting […]

May, 28

Miracle in Soho * (1957, John Gregson, Belinda Lee, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,222

Director Julian Amyes’s 1957 Eastman Color romantic drama Miracle in Soho is set in a central London fictional Soho street called St Anthony’s Lane, where a team of road workers arrives to dig up the […]

May, 19

Clash by Night [Escape by Night] ** (1964, Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Peter Sallis, Alan Wheatley, Vanda Godsell) – Classic Movie Review 11,221

A typical bunch of Sixties B-movie villains hijack a busload of mostly criminal passengers en route to jail to get their dangerous gang boss leader Bart Rennison (Tom Bowman) released, and the rest of the […]

May, 19

Meet Nero Wolfe *** (1936, Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Dennie Moore, Joan Perry, Victor Jory, Nana Bryant) – Classic Movie Review 11,212

The 1936 Columbia Pictures black and white mystery thriller Meet Nero Wolfe is based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout. Edward Arnold plays the gruff, boozy, stay-at-home New York detective hero. ‘I CAN […]

May, 16

Monsieur Beaucaire *** (1924, Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Ian Maclaren, Doris Kenyon) – Classic Movie Review 11,155

‘Never Has Valentino Been Such a Lover, Such a Dancer, Such a Swordsman, Such a Dashing, Handsome, Lovable Hero as You’ll See Him in This Master Photoplay.’ Producer-director Sidney Alcott’s 1924 Paramount Pictures black and […]

May, 01

Four Sided Triangle *** (1953, Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen) – Classic Movie Review 11,143

‘God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions – Ecclesiates.’ Writer-director Terence Fisher’s 1953 Four Sided Triangle is a daft but fascinating Hammer Films black and white clone fantasy film about […]

Apr, 28

The Last Man to Hang ** (1956, Tom Conway, Elizabeth Sellars, Eunice Gayson, Freda Jackson, Hugh Latimer) – Classic Movie Review 11,138

‘The Love Triangle That Became a Circle… of Rope!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1956 black and white crime drama The Last Man to Hang stars Tom Conway and Elizabeth Sellars, with Eunice Gayson, Freda Jackson and […]

Apr, 26

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