Derek Winnert

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Gun Street * (1961, James Brown, Jean Willes, John Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 11,623

‘All The Terror Of A ‘Killer Hunt’… All The Fury Of The Old West… All The Cold-Steel Courage Of One-Man Law!’ Director Edward L Cahn’s low-budget 1961 black and white Western film Gun Street stars […]

Oct, 02

Man on the Run ** (1949, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 11,083

Writer/ producer/ director Lawrence Huntington’s 1949 black and white film noir Man on the Run is a humdrum British post-war thriller with a familiar plot, but it is given a little bit of a lift […]

Apr, 09

The Texan *** (1930, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel, James A Marcus) – Classic Movie Review 10,265

Director John Cromwell’s primitive but interesting 1930 early talkie Western film The Texan stars Gary Cooper as a bandit called the Llano Kid who meets con man Thacker (Oscar Apfel), who persuades him to pretend […]

Sep, 05

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands *** (1948, Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton) – Classic Movie Review 9690

The excellent 1948 film noir thriller Kiss the Blood Off My Hands stars Burt Lancaster as a fugitive who killed a man in a fight and hides away in a lonely nurse (Joan Fontaine)’s apartment. […]

Apr, 30

Runaway Train *** (1985, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 9481

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 Cannon Group adventure movie Runaway Train is a solid but over-blown mythical action thriller, with outsize performances by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaping prisoners on an out-of-control train speeding […]

Mar, 08

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith **** (1978, Tommy Lewis, Jack Thompson, Ray Barrett, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 9308

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith stars Tommy Lewis as nice young Australian half-Aborigine Jimmie Blacksmith, who is brought up by bigoted minister the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) at the turn of […]

Jan, 27

Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13

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