Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "first of series"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "first of series".

Old Mother Riley *** (1937, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest) – Classic Movie Review 10,780

The 1937 British comedy film Old Mother Riley is the first of the 15-movie Old Mother Riley comedy series, with Arthur Lucan funny in drag as the loud elderly Irish washerwoman and Lucan’s real-wife Kitty McShane […]

Jan, 12

Crocodile Dundee ****(1986, Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 8047

It is virtually impossible not to succumb to the charms of director Peter Faiman’s hilarious 1986 Australian comedy Crocodile Dundee, with Aussie bush hunter hero Michael J Dundee (the comic Paul Hogan in his movie […]

Jan, 22

Fast Company *** (1938, Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Louis Calhern, Claire Dodd, George Zucco, Shepperd Strudwick, Nat Pendleton, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 6,134

Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star as married rare-book dealers who try to solve a murder case, in MGM’s entertaining 1938 comedy mystery thriller film Fast Company. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star as married […]

Oct, 24

Death Drums along the River [Sanders] ** (1963, Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 5821

Richard Todd gives a solid star turn as dogged British colonial district commissioner Inspector Harry Sanders in director Lawrence Huntington’s dully written, freely adapted 1963 remake of Edgar Wallace’s famous 1911 African adventure novel Sanders of […]

Jul, 29

Calling Dr Death *** (1943, Lon Chaney Jr, Patricia Morison, J Carrol Naish, Ramsay Ames) – Classic Movie Review 3751

Director Reginald Le Borg’s 1943 thriller is the first Inner Sanctum series entry starring Lon Chaney Jr as Dr Mark Steele who believes that he could have murdered his unfaithful, conniving wife Maria (Ramsay Ames) […]

May, 24

The Broadway Melody **** (1929, Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 3624

ALL TALKING! ALL SINGING! ALL DANCING! Director Harry Beaumont’s 1929 movie is the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first musical to win Best Picture Oscar. It is also the first MGM musical […]

Apr, 27

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.