Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "remake".

Kismet *** (1944, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Hugh Herbert, Joy Ann Page, Florence Bates, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7749

The MGM studio’s wonderfully plush and luscious remake of the Edward Knoblock stage yarn is World War Two wartime escapism gone mad, with notable casting in Ronald Colman as the beggar king Hafiz and Jamilla […]

Nov, 03

Spring Parade **** (1940, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, S Z Sakall, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7743

Director Henry Koster’s 1940 Spring Parade is a sweet and entertaining featherweight romantic musical, in which Hungarian girl Ilonka Tolnay (Deanna Durbin) grows up to be the baker Latislav Teschek (S Z Sakall)’s helper in the […]

Nov, 02

My Dream Is Yours *** (1949, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7688

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as […]

Oct, 21

Tea for Two *** (1950, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, Billy DeWolfe, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7684

‘Everybody’s goin’ Gay with – Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.’ No, really? Director David Butler’s diverting 1950 Technicolor musical Tea for Two, a distant cousin to the Twenties show No, No, Nanette from which it […]

Oct, 20

Suspiria ** (2018, Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, Mia Goth) – Movie Review

You’ve got to hand it to Luca Guadagnino. He’s gone from one of the best movies at the 2107 London Film Festival – Call Me by Your Name – to one of the worst in […]

Oct, 16

On the Riviera *** (1951, Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 7661

Director Walter Lang’s 1951 Technicolor musical comedy On the Riviera is a fine and dandy vehicle for Danny Kaye, who has fun in two parts as Jack Martin, an American song and dance man adept at […]

Oct, 11

Brown of Harvard *** (1926, William Haines, Ralph Bushman, Mary Brian, Jack Pickford) – Classic Movie Review 7640

Director Jack Conway’s 1926 MGM silent drama Brown of Harvard stars William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian and is based on the hit 1906 Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play with Melvin Ellis. Haines does well […]

Oct, 06

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.