Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "camp"

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Song of the Open Road ** (1944, Jane Powell, Bonita Granville, Peggy O’Neill, Jackie Moran, Bill Christy, W C Fields, Edgar Bergen, Sammy Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 11,586

Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1944 musical comedy film Song of the Open Road is remembered as the debut film of teenage singer Jane Powell, as well as for its appearances by W C Fields and Edgar Bergen. In 1943, […]

Sep, 19

Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] ** (1989, Brandon Lee, Debi A Monahan, Ernest Borgnine, Werner Pochath) – Classic Movie Review 11,339

Director Beau J Davis’s low-budget US/ German/ S African 1989 Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] is Brandon Lee’s second credited film, in which he plays US special agent Michael Gold, a mercenary loner and expert […]

Jun, 24

Moon Over Miami *** (1941, Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis) – Classic Movie Review 11,337

‘POOR GIRL’S PARADISE! Two sisters storm the Miami Millionaire Colony’ in Moon Over Miami (1941). Director Walter Lang’s 1941 Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable, who clicks with the public as Kay Latimer, a Texas […]

Jun, 23

Greenwich Village *** (1944, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine, Felix Bressart) – Classic Movie Review 11,315

‘HIT OF HITS!!! IN TECHNICOLOR! ‘ Director Walter Lang’s 1944 Technicolor film Greenwich Village is a colourful and campy 20th Century Fox 1920s backstage musical with Don Ameche as a composer who plays piano for […]

Jun, 16

Mother Wore Tights *** (1947, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 11,251

Betty Grable had been the reigning box office queen since the beginning of the 1940s, and scored her biggest triumph with director Walter Lang’s Technicolor musical Mother Wore Tights in 1947. This amiable story dissecting […]

May, 28

Diamond Horseshoe **** (1945, Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, Margaret Dumont, William Gaxton) – Classic Movie Review 11,044

Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]

Mar, 25

The Golden Blade ** (1953, Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 10,096

Director Nathan Juran’s 1953 film The Golden Blade is a breezy and fun, but daft and not very bright Arabian adventure, with Rock Hudson looking embarrassed as the fearless hero, Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid, who […]

Jul, 27

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