Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Corporal"

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The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] **** (1962, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jean Carmet, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 8988

Director Jean Renoir’s 1962 French wartime comedy drama The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] stars Jean-Pierre Cassel as a Parisian corporal, who is captured by the invading Germans and, along with two of […]

Oct, 16

The Wolf Hunters ** (1949, Kirby Grant, Jan Clayton, Edward Norris) – Classic Movie Review 7148

Director Budd Boetticher’s humble 1949 Western stars Kirby Grant as Canadian Mountie Corporal Rod Webb, who tracks down evil fur trappers who are killing other fur trappers and stealing their furs, in this cost-conscious Monogram […]

Jun, 10

Northern Pursuit *** (1943, Errol Flynn, Julie Bishop, Helmut Dantine, John Ridgely, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 4753

Director Raoul Walsh’s propaganda 1943 adventure movie, set in Canada during the early years of World War Two, tells a good old-fashioned tale about an upright, dogged Mountie – the kind that always gets his man. […]

Dec, 05

Fixed Bayonets! **** (1951, Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 3476

Cult favourite writer-director Samuel Fuller delivers a tough, rough and robust Korean War action thriller, starting with his intelligent, thoughtful screenplay telling the story of a separated platoon of weary American infantrymen. It is set in 1950 during […]

Mar, 15

King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422

George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]

Apr, 24

Penguins of Madagascar *** (2014, voices of John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch) – Movie Review

In this daft, frantic and amusing penguins spinoff from the DreamWorks Madagascar animation franchise, Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico get involved in a global espionage plot. The form a SWAT team of penguins who join forces […]

Dec, 05

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