Derek Winnert

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Bathing Beauty **** (1944, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Jean Porter, Bill Goodwin, Nana Bryant, Xavier Cugat, Harry James) – Classic Movie Review 6,591

The Forties silver screen Bathing Beauty could only be Esther Williams, and here she is in all her Technicolor glory in MGM’s deliciously kitsch and richly entertaining 1944 musical movie. The Forties silver screen Bathing […]

Jan, 22

Leningrad Cowboys Go America **** (1989, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää) – Classic Movie Review 6444

Cult director Aki Kaurismäki’s determinedly oddball 1989 comedy from Finland tells the story of a spectacularly untalented Siberian rock band, the fictional Leningrad Cowboys, travelling across America with their manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) to look for […]

Dec, 20

Haunted Honeymoon ** (1986, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dom DeLuise, Jonathan Pryce, Paul L Smith, Peter Vaughan, Bryan Pringle) – Classic Movie Review 6283

Co-writer/ director Gene Wilder and his late wife Gilda Radner bring a smidgeon of sparkle into this amiable but slack, creaky and lacklustre 1986 haunted house spoof comedy chiller. The problem, as so often, especially […]

Nov, 22

Romance on the High Seas **** (1948, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 6077

Director Michael Curtiz’s vivacious 1948 Warner Bros musical stars Doris Day, who sparkles in her first film as a cabaret singer called Georgia Garrett, who is hired to pose as a married woman named Elvira Kent […]

Oct, 11

Our Modern Maidens *** (1929, Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Anita Page, Josephine Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 5964

Director Jack Conway’s silent romantic entanglement drama stars Joan Crawford in her last non-talkie, along with Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Dorothy Sebastian and Anita Page. A silent film it may be, but it features a synchronized soundtrack and sound effects. […]

Aug, 24

The Member of the Wedding **** (1952, Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5919

Director Fred Zinnemann makes a superb job of his stage-to-screen 1952 movie of Carson McCullers’s lovely play and novel The Member of the Wedding about the rites of passage of a tomboyish young girl called […]

Aug, 15

Lovers and Other Strangers **** (1970, Gig Young, Beatrice Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Anne Jackson, Harry Guardino, Michael Brandon, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 5910

Director Cy Howard’s funny and clever 1970 sex comedy stars Bonnie Bedelia and Michael Brandon as a young couple who have lived together and get married, only to find out at the wedding their unhapppy families […]

Aug, 14

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