Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "shore leave"

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Men O’War **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 9455

Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 two-reeler short comedy Men O’War stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as sailors on shore leave, who meet two giggling girls (Anne Cornwall, Gloria Greer) in the park. Written and […]

Mar, 03

Two Tars **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7420

Director James Parrott’s elaborate and inventive 1928 Two Tars is a tip-top Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy 21-minute silent short film of madcap mayhem. Laurel and Hardy play the two tars, sailors on shore leave […]

Aug, 09

Mister Roberts ***** (1955, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 5,882

Henry Fonda re-creates his Broadway role as the war-mongering officer Lieutenant Roberts aboard a World War Two cargo ship battling with tyrannical ship’s captain Captain Morton (James Cagney), in the 1955 comedy drama film Mr […]

Aug, 08

Hollywood Canteen **** (1944, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, The Andrews Sisters) – Classic Movie Review 3882

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1944 World War Two morale-boosting musical and toast to the real-life Hollywood Canteen vastly entertains with its high spirits, good humour, good intentions, and high-quota camp and nostalgia value. As Bette Davis and […]

Jun, 19

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