Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Oliver Reed"

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Paranoiac ***½ (1963, Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham, Alexander Davion, Liliane Brousse) – Classic Movie Review 3305

Hammer Films’ 1963 thriller Paranoiac is loosely based on Josephine Tey’s brilliant novel Brat Farrar, in which a charming young man long believed dead returns to his family estate to claim his inheritance. Director Freddie […]

Jan, 31

The Pirates of Blood River *** (1962, Christopher Lee, Kerwin Mathews, Peter Arne, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Andrew Keir, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 3280

In co-writer/director John Gilling’s 1962 high adventure yarn The Pirates of Blood River, pirates attack the French Huguenots for their gold. The movie stars Kerwin Mathews as the dashing Huguenot hero Jonathon Standing battling the […]

Jan, 18

The Scarlet Blade *** (1963, Oliver Reed, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Hedley, June Thorburn, Duncan Lamont, Michael Ripper, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 3279

Writer-director John Gilling’s bright and jolly 1963 Hammer Films period adventure movie The Scarlet Blade stars a dashing young Oliver Reed, who grabs his turn to swash an athletic buckle as the star of producer […]

Jan, 18

And Then There Were None * (1974, Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 3263

Oliver Reed stars in the 1974 mystery thriller film And Then There Were None, a strongly cast remake of Agatha Christie’s ingenious 1939 classic novel, the world’s best-selling mystery with more than 100 million sales. […]

Jan, 13

The Devils **** (1971, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3032

Vanessa Redgrave stars in Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) as a sexually repressed hunchback nun so obsessed with a priest (Oliver Reed) that she accuses him of witchcraft and says he has possessed her.  Writer-producer-director […]

Nov, 03

The Pit and the Pendulum *** (1991, Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William J Norris, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 2846

Lance Henriksen is suitably haunted as the particularly sadistic Spanish Inquisition torturer Torquemada in director Stuart Gordon’s gruesome, nasty-toned 1991 made-for-cinema remake of Roger Corman’s 1961 chiller. Rona De Ricci plays Maria, who speaks out […]

Aug, 23

The Curse of the Werewolf **** (1961, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Romain) – Classic Movie Review 2680

Director Terence Fisher’s 1961 British movie The Curse of the Werewolf gives the 23-year-old Oliver Reed his first taste of stardom as the furry fellow in this creepy Hammer horror set in a Technicolored, sinister […]

Jul, 08

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