Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "talking to the camera"

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Road to Bali *** (1952, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 6607

After a five-year layoff since Road to Rio, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour are back on the road again with director Hal Walker’s zippy 1952 Paramount comedy Road to Bali, the sixth in […]

Jan, 26

That’s Entertainment, Part II ***** (1975, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6295

Director Gene Kelly’s marvellously entertaining 1975 sequel to Jack Haley Jr’s That’s Entertainment! (1974) boasts some more all-time-great musical sequences from the MGM film library. But this time it also includes some non-musical sequences, with […]

Nov, 23

One Hour with You ***** (1932, Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier) – Classic Movie Review 5777

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch re-teams Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald after The Love Parade (1929) in this delightfully witty, deliciously daring 1932 Paramount romantic comedy with songs, based on Lothar Schmidt’s play Only a Dream. Chevalier plays […]

Jul, 20

Jeffrey *** (1995, Steven Weber, Michael T Weiss, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 5687

Director Christopher Ashley’s poignant and funny 1995 gay romantic comedy stars Steven Weber as Jeffrey and Michael T Weiss as Steve, and is based on Paul Rudnick’s play about the life and times of Richard […]

Jun, 30

Zazie dans le Métro ***** (1960, Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps) – Classic Movie Review 5008

Louis Malle relishes directing one of the key films of the French New Wave about the precocious 11-year-old sophisticated girl Zazie (Catherine Demongeot) who spends a day or so in Paris, travelling the Métro with her […]

Feb, 05

Designing Woman *** (1957, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray) – Classic Movie Review 4,967

The wittily written 1957 romantic comedy film Designing Woman stars Lauren Bacall as the fashion-designing woman who tackles her sports columnist husband (Gregory Peck) when they find they have little in common after marrying in […]

Jan, 30

School for Scoundrels… Or How to Win Without Actually Cheating! **** (1960, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 894

Ian Carmichael stars in 1960 as the wimpy, bewildered Henry Palfrey, a man afflicted with a giant inferiority complex. He is devastated when sophisticated, flashy rotter Raymond Delouney (Terry-Thomas) makes a play for pretty April Smith […]

Mar, 10

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