Derek Winnert

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So’s Your Old Man **** (1926, W C Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9779

Director Gregory La Cava 1926 comedy So’s Your Old Man is one of W C Fields’s best silent comedies, in which he plays Mr Samuel Bisbee, a tippling glazier and henpecked husband, who takes his […]

May, 16 · in Reviews

The Kid from Left Field ** (1953, Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin, Lloyd Bridges, Ray Collins, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 9778

Director Harmon Jones’s 1953 black and white 20th Century Fox sports comedy The Kid from Left Field stars Dan Dailey as Larry ‘Pop’ Cooper, a former baseball player who ends up as a snack salesman […]

May, 16 · in Reviews

The Glory Brigade ** (1953, Victor Mature, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 9778

Director Robert D Webb’s 1953 black and white 20th Century Fox war movie The Glory Brigade stars Victor Mature as American lieutenant  Sam Pryor, who offers to help a regiment from his old country – […]

May, 16

The Man from the Alamo *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Victor Jory, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9,777

Budd Boetticher’s taut, fine looking 1953 Technicolor Western film The Man from the Alamo stars Glenn Ford as Battle of the Alamo sole survivor John Stroud, who sets out for revenge.  Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 […]

May, 16

Slave Girl ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 9776

Director Charles Lamont’s 1947 Technicolor trifle Slave Girl tells an entertainingly silly action adventure tale (with weedy added humour when the Universal studio saw what a risible movie the original Victorian-set historical adventure story had […]

May, 16

So Big ** (1953, Jane Wyman, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Olson, Richard Beymer, Nancy Olson, Steve Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 9775

Director Robert Wise’s 1953 romantic drama So Big, the desultory remake of the 1932 semi-classic So Big, based on the Pulitizer Prize novel by Edna Ferber, is thin, soapy and over-extended. The cast is good […]

May, 16

So This Is Paris *** (1954, Tony Curtis, Gloria DeHaven, Gene Nelson, Corinne Calvet, Mara Corday, Paul Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 9774

Director Richard Quine’s vibrant if messy and cheap-looking 1954 Technicolor musical So This Is Paris has a trio of Yankee sailors, Joe, Al and Davy (Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert), on furlough chasing […]

May, 16

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