Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "taxi driver"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "taxi driver".

Three Hats for Lisa * (1965, Joe Brown, Sidney James, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs, Dave Nelson, Peter Bowles, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 11,477

The inept 1965 Swinging Sixties London musical chase comedy Three Hats for Lisa has one of the most unpromising film plots of all time. Joe Brown, Sid James, Sophie Hardy and Una Stubbs star.  Director […]

Aug, 14

Baby on Board * (1992, Judge Reinhold, Carol Kane, Geza Kovacs, Alex Stapley, Holly Stapley) – Classic Movie Review 10,655

‘The cabbie, the mob and another little lady!’ Director Francis A Schaeffer’s 1992 slapstick comedy Baby on Board stars Judge Reinhold, who plays a New York City cabbie called Ernie, embroiled with gangster’s widow Maria […]

Dec, 12

Blackmailed ** (1951, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 9707

A good yarn based on Elizabeth Myers’s novel Mrs Christopher becomes a rather artificial and tame British thriller in 1951 as Blackmailed, but with a good, hard-working cast headed by Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling, […]

May, 03

Dancing with Crime *** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Barry K Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 8498

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1947 mystery crime drama Dancing with Crime is an interesting attempt at a post-war British quickie in the American crime melodrama style starring real-life couple Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim as […]

May, 26

Walking My Baby Back Home ** (1953, Donald O’Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, Lori Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7266

A group of former World War Two American army buddies join together again to play jazz, starting a band, which flops so he joins Colonel Dan Wallace (George Cleveland)’s a minstrel show and falls for the Colonel’s […]

Jul, 08

Romance in Manhattan *** (1935, Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 6959

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1935 comedy/romance film is the Green Card of its day in its story that has a hapless foreigner, Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a naive Czech immigrant, who arrives at Ellis Island in New […]

Apr, 23

Johnny Eager *** (1942, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6707

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1942 MGM movie is a half-way good gangster picture with a convincing atmosphere and a commendably taut pace, in which nice girl Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls for vicious mobster Johnny Eager […]

Feb, 18

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.