Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

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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

The Awakening ** (1980, Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist) – Classic Movie Review 7506

Mike Newell makes his debut as cinema director for the 1980 British horror movie The Awakening, a remake of the 1971 Hammer favourite Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, and also another version of the 1903 Bram Stoker novel […]

Aug, 28

When Ladies Meet *** (1941, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 7504

‘Hollywood Parade Of Stars In Gay Romance’ – sounds appealing, huh? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have another go in 1941 at filming Rachel Crothers’s 1932 play following their 1933 movie When Ladies Meet with Ann Harding, Robert […]

Aug, 27

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