Derek Winnert

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Follow a Star ** (1959, Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Hattie Jacques, John le Mesurier, Richard Wattis, Fenella Fielding, Ron Moody) – Classic Movie Review 11,218

Director Robert Asher’s 1959 British black and white comedy Follow a Star stars Norman Wisdom as Norman Truscott, a meek and mild tailor/ wannabee singer, employed by croaky crooner Vernon Carew (Jerry Desmonde) to sing […]

May, 18

Blood Orange *** (1953, Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance) – Classic Movie Review 11,088

Director Terence Fisher’s 1953 Hammer Films low-budget black and white crime mystery thriller programmer Blood Orange stars Tom Conway as a private investigator called Tom Conway, who investigates after both a model (Delphi Lawrence) and […]

Apr, 10

Bonzo Goes to College * (1952, Maureen O’Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Drake, Gigi Perreau Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 11,019

The super-chimp that Ronald Reagan brought up as a human baby in 1951’s Bedtime for Bonzo is back, alas without Ronnie, in this fair 1952 slapstick comedy sequel Bonzo Goes to College, in which literate […]

Mar, 13

It’s in the Air **½ (1938, George Formby, Polly Ward, Garry Marsh, Jack Hobbs) – Classic Movie Review 10,497

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1938 British black and white slapstick comedy It’s in the Air [George Takes the Air] stars George Formby as George Brown, the disaster-struck, motorbike-crazed rookie who joins the RAF as a message […]

Nov, 04

Keep Your Seats, Please! *** (1936, George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 10,495

The 1936 comedy Keep Your Seats, Please! stars George Formby as George Withers, who chases treasure stashed in an antique chair. BBC boss John Reith said: ‘If the public wants to hear Formby singing his […]

Nov, 03

Bottoms Up *** (1960, Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 9700

Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]

May, 02

Black Widow *** (1951, Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne) – Classic Movie Review 9,585

Hammer Films’ 1951 British thriller film Black Widow is a version of a BBC radio serial of the day, Lester Powell’s Return from Darkness, and stars Christine Norden, Robert Ayres and Jennifer Jayne. The 1951 […]

Apr, 01

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