Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Delta Force *** (1986, Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Robert Forster, Joey Bishop, Lainie Kazan, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 9786

Menahem Golan’s 1986 action thriller The Delta Force is a level-headed film of the real-life rescue of a hijacked TWA plane in Greece, in which the terrorists come up against a Delta Force crack team […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

Dentist in the Chair *** (1960, Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens, Reginald Beckwith, Vincent Ball) – Classic Movie Review 9785

Director Don Chaffey’s amusing 1960 British black and white comedy Dentist in the Chair stars Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens as David Cookson and Brian Dexter, young dental-school students who become embroiled with petty criminal […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

The Fatal Glass of Beer *** (1933, W C Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 9784

Director Clyde Bruckman’s 1933 comedy short The Fatal Glass of Beer is an only modestly amusing W C Fields two-reeler, in which he plays Pa Snavely, a Yukon prospector/ trapper married to Ma Snavely (Rosemary […]

May, 17

The Dentist **** (1932, W C Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray, Dorothy Granger) – Classic Movie Review 9783

W C Fields’s precious 1932 vintage comedy short The Dentist re-creates his stage act as the kind of dentist who fills you with dread. Fields is on great form in this, the first and funniest […]

May, 17

Man on the Flying Trapeze ***** (1935, W C Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9782

Director Clyde Bruckman’s 1935 comedy Man on the Flying Trapeze [The Memory Expert] is a hilariously funny W C Fields film from his best period, in which he stars as Ambrose Wolfinger, who rails against […]

May, 17

The Golf Specialist **** (1930, W C Fields, Shirley Grey, Allen Wood, Allan Bennett, William Black) – Classic Movie Review 9781

Director Monte Brice’s funny 1930 20-minute comedy short The Golf Specialist from RKO Pictures is W C Fields’s first talkie. It is shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey the site of many early film studios. […]

May, 17

You’re Telling Me! *** (1934, W C Fields, Joan Marsh, Larry ‘Buster’ Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Kathleen Howard, Louise Carter) – Classic Movie Review 9780

Director Erle C Kenton’s 1934 comedy You’re Telling Me! stars W C Fields as Mr Sam Brisbee, an optician despised in his small town, particularly by his wife Bessie/ or Abigail (Louise Carter), for his […]

May, 17

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