Derek Winnert

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Children Galore ** (1955, Eddie Byrne, Marjorie Rhodes, June Thorburn, Richard Leech, Betty Ann Davies) – Classic Movie Review 11,140

Director Terence Fisher’s cheery 1955 British black and white comedy Children Galore is a spirited comic effort that tells this tale of a titled couple, Lord and Lady Redscarf (Evan Thomas, Marjorie Hume), who offer […]

Apr, 27

The Racers * (1955, Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9524

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1955 sporting drama The Racers [Such Men Are Dangerous] stars Kirk Douglas as Gino Borgesa, who dashes around the picturesque roads of Europe in his quest to win the Monaco Grand Prix, […]

Mar, 18

Too Hot To Handle [Playgirl After Dark] * (1960, Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Sheldon Lawrence, Christopher Lee, Patrick Holt, Barbara Windsor, Danik Patisson) – Classic Movie Review 8423

Jayne Mansfield stars as Midnight Franklin, a nightclub exotic singer-dancer trying to save her boyfriend, London gangland and club boss Johnny Solo (Leo Genn), from an extortion racket when he gets threats for protection at […]

May, 02

The Fox and the Hound ** (1981, Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8193

Directors Ted Berman, Richard Rich and Art Stevens’s 1981 animated feature The Fox and the Hound is a mild Walt Disney cartoon about a fox’s friendship with a hunting dog, whose owner finds this unnatural, so […]

Mar, 03

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines *** (1965, Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, James Fox, Eric Sykes, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 6279

Edwardian pioneer fliers compete in publisher Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley)’s 1910 London-to-Paris air race in every kind of ramshackle contraption. Caddish Sir Percy Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) is willing to cheat, upstanding guards officer Richard Mays (James Fox) keeps a stiff […]

Nov, 21

Footlight Parade ***** (1933, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell) – Classic Movie Review 5891

Director Lloyd Bacon’s classic 1933 Warner Bros backstage musical is one of the best of its vivacious, toe-tapping kind. It has a quintessential putting-on-a-show plot, in which an out-of-work Broadway producer called Chester Kent (played by […]

Aug, 10

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit **** (2005, voices Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Mark Gatiss, Geraldine McEwan) – Classic Movie Review 4332

Hooray! Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and his loyal, clever dog Gromit are back – this time on the big screen for their first feature length adventure, in which they are soft-hearted pest controllers, protecting […]

Sep, 10

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