Derek Winnert

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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

The Bohemian Girl *** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 7368

Directors James W Horne and Charles [Charley] R Rogers’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl is another of their operetta send-ups, following The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] (1933). Laurel and Hardy […]

Jul, 29

Summer Holiday **** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7355

MGM’s boy star Mickey Rooney finally comes of age at 27 in ace director Rouben Mamoulian’s delightfully handsome and extravagant 1948 Technicolor musical rejig of Eugene O’Neill’s famed play Ah Wilderness! about a Danville, Connecticut, […]

Jul, 27

Istanbul ** (1957, Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher, Leif Erickson, Martin Benson, Peggy Knudsen) – Classic Movie Review 7271

Director Joseph Pevney’s 1957 romantic espionage adventure crime drama Istanbul is a rehash of 1947’s Singapore, this time (obviously) relocated to Istanbul and starring Errol Flynn as pilot adventurer James Brennan deported for diamond smuggling but returning […]

Jul, 09

Living It Up *** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7267

Director Norman Taurog’s free-wheeling 1954 Technicolor carefree screwball comedy Living It Up stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold as The Mayor, Fred Clark, Sheree North and Sig Ruman. Lewis plays Homer Flagg, […]

Jul, 08

 The Good Companions *** (1957, Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, John Fraser, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Bobby Howes, Thora Hird, Rachel Roberts ) – Classic Movie Review 7238

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1954 The Good Companions is an ideal Fifties film version of J B Priestley’s funny novel and play about a concert party on tour. Shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope, it stars Eric […]

Jun, 30

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