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

The Singing Fool **** (1927, Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 10,724

‘Come! Through Vitaphone hear the greatest living entertainer, Al Jolson score a triumph that will make you tingle with smiles and tears!’ Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1927 Vitaphone/ Warner Bros black and white blockbuster musical drama […]

Dec, 30

Three Smart Girls *** (1936, Deanna Durbin, Barbara Read, Nan Grey, Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 10,702

Three sisters try to reunite their estranged parents (Charles Winninger and Nella Walker) when their father wants to wed a trampy money-grabber in Universal’s thin but popular 1936 black and white drama Three Smart Girls, […]

Dec, 24

Way Down East ***** (1920, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 9449

Producer-director D W Griffith’s 1920 heart-tugging black and white silent romantic drama Way Down East stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Lowell Sherman, and is based on a play by Lottie Blair Parker and William […]

Mar, 01

Buck Privates *** (1941, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Jane Frazee) – Classic Movie Review 9442

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1941 wartime services comedy Buck Privates [Rookies] stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their first starring madcap nonsense, in which they play sidewalk salesmen Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown, who enlist […]

Feb, 29

Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review

Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]

Jul, 10

Sabrina *** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden) – Classic Film Review 934

Director Billy Wilder’s 1954 romance is a pleasant but modest and none-too-sparkling romantic comedy based on a creaky 1953 Broadway play Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor. William Holden stars as David Larrabee, an easy-going Long Island playboy along with […]

Mar, 18

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