Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "inheritance"

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Splitting Heirs * (1993, Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Eric Sykes, Stratford Johns, Brenda Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 11,973

Eric Idle is supposed to be a young man called Tommy cheated out of his inheritance by American-raised impostor Henry (Rick Moranis), with whom he was swapped at birth. So he connives with Moranis’s fiancée […]

Mar, 02

Tillie and Gus **** (1933, W C Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy) – Classic Movie Review 11,463

Director Francis Martin’s 1933 American pre-Code comedy film Tillie and Gus stars W C Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop, Phillip Trent, and Clarence Wilson. It is the precious first encounter between spectacular old sourpuss Fields and impressive young […]

Aug, 08

Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

The Shadow of the Cat *** (1961, André Morell, Barbara Shelley, William Lucas, Freda Jackson, Conrad Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,762

A murderous moggy called Tabitha seems to be bumping off those who are benefiting from its rich elderly owner’s untimely death, in Hammer Films’ sinister 1961 British mystery horror thriller film The Shadow of the […]

Jan, 07

Kidnapped *** (1971, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas, Gordon Jackson, Freddie Jones, Jack Watson, Vivien Heilbron) – Classic Movie Review 10,701

‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Great Adventure Story… Now a Monumental Motion Picture!’ Director Delbert Mann’s 1971 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the fourth big movie attempt at the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of adventure and romance – […]

Dec, 23

Oscar and Lucinda ** (1997, Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,629

Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]

Dec, 05

Fletch Lives * (1989, Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 10,088

Fletch Lives… but the movie dies. Director Michael Ritchie’s 1989 comedy-thriller Fletch Lives is an irritating, abravive sequel to the very popular 1985 comedy-thriller Fletch, with Chevy Chase back as Irwin ‘Fletch’ Fletcher, the fast-talking […]

Jul, 26

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