Derek Winnert

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Lady of Burlesque *** (1943, Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O’Shea, J Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian, Gloria Dickson) – Classic Movie Review 7,498

Striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee tried her hand at writing with the 1941 burlesque mystery novel The G-String Murders, which was made into the 1943 musical comedy-mystery movie Lady of Burlesque, starring Barbara Stanwyck as […]

Aug, 26

The Big Town *** (1987, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones ) – Classic Movie Review 7312

The handsome young Matt Dillon is all cool Eighties style that proves perfect for his role as the cocky Fifties small town boy J C Cullen, who comes Chicago to work as a professional gambler and […]

Jul, 19

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

Escape to Athena *** (1979, Roger Moore, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Sonny Bono, Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, Stefanie Powers, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 6792

Director George Pan Cosmatos’s game, high-spirited 1979 British war caper is endearingly daft hokum from Lord Grade just before Raise the Titanic sank his company, ITC, with an all-star cast in a World War Two […]

Mar, 12

Blaze *** (1989, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain) – Classic Movie Review 6369

Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1989 biographical drama stars Paul Newman as Earl Long, the stubborn and eccentric 1950s governor of Louisiana who brings his stripper girlfriend Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich) on to the hustings with him […]

Dec, 07

Rough Night * (2017, Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Zoë Kravitz, Ilana Glazer, Paul W Downs) – Movie Review

You’re guaranteed a Rough Night in the cinema (or afternoon in my case) when five unfunny performances battle a laugh-free script about five women on a bachelorette party in Miami who hire a male stripper/ gigolo and accidentally […]

Sep, 11

How to be Very, Very Popular ** (1955, Betty Grable, Sheree North, Charles Coburn, Robert Cummings, Orson Bean, Tommy Noonan, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5168

In her final film, aged 39, the Very, Very Popular Betty Grable bows out with writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thin but amiable 1955 comedy, with only one song by Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn – the title […]

Mar, 16

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