Derek Winnert

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A Song Is Born *** (1948, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 11,434

Director Howard Hawks’s 1948 Technicolor musical film remake A Song Is Born stars Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Director Hawks’s re-interpretation of his own 1941 classic Ball of Fire features a snappy performance from Kaye as […]

Jul, 30

Affair in Trinidad *** (1952, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 10,932

The 1952 black and white crime thriller film Affair in Trinidad re-teams the stars of the 1946 film noir masterwork Gilda, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. The star team still shines, but the Gilda magic […]

Feb, 18

Strictly Sinatra ** (2001, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 9,492

Ian Hart from Liverpool manages a decent Scots accent and a nifty vocal impression of Frank Sinatra, as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed with Ol’ Blue Eyes, in writer-director Peter Capaldi’s 2001 British drama […]

Mar, 10

Charlie Chan in Rio ** (1941, Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Cobina Wright) – Classic Movie Review 9042

Director Harry Lachman’s 1941 thriller Charlie Chan in Rio brings back Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan and offers low-budget crime mystery fun in Rio de Janeiro, with Charlie Chan prompting the cops to fathom a […]

Nov, 02

Brief Moment ** (1933, Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley, Arthur Hohl) –  Classic Movie Review 6760

Director David Burton’s 1933 American pre-Code drama film Brief Moment stars Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond, and is based on the play by S N Behrman. The Depression Era story has a heavily laid-on moral about using your gifts and abilities, whether […]

Mar, 04

Scared Stiff *** (1953, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 6611

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star as nightclub lounge singer Larry Todd and his soppy busboy friend and partner Myron Mertz fleeing from a murder charge and washing up on a creepy Caribbean island recently […]

Jan, 27

Riff-Raff [Riffraff] *** (1947, Pat O’Brien, Anne Jeffreys, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 4999

Pat O’Brien stars as a conman who gets a map to a Panama oilfield and has to fend off the bad guys who are after it, in the 1947 adventure movie Riff-Raff [Riffraff]. Pat O’Brien […]

Feb, 06

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