Derek Winnert

Reviews

Five Weeks in a Balloon *** (1962, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Richard Haydn, Billy Gilbert, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Herbert Marshall, Reginald Owen, Henry Daniell, BarBara Luna) – Classic Movie Review 11,538

Up, up and away with Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Richard Haydn, Barbara Eden and Fabian. Director Irwin Allen’s 1962 adventure film Five Weeks in a Balloon stars Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, […]

Aug, 31

5 Steps to Danger ***½ (1956, Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines, Charles Davis, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Hansen) – Classic Movie Review 11,537

The 1956 American film noir crime movie Five Steps to Danger is a fascinating Cold War thriller with involving star performances by Sterling Hayden and Ruth Roman, as a man’s car trip turns into a […]

Aug, 31

Bagdad Café **** (1987, Marianne Sägebrecht, Jack Palance, C C H Pounder, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg) – Classic Movie Review 11,536

Director Percy Adlon’s 1987 English-language West German comedy drama Bagdad Café [Out of Rosenheim] stars the unlikely, larger-than-life German sex bomb Marianne Sägebrecht as Jasmin Münchgstettner, a hefty tourist from from Rosenheim, Bavaria, who leaves her […]

Aug, 30

Hard Men (1996, Vincent Regan, Lee Ross, Ross Boatman, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, Ken Campbell, Mirella D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 11,535

Writer-director J K Amalou’s 1996 British crime gangster black comedy film Hard Men is an appalling British ‘homage’ to Quentin Tarantino, in which a vicious London gangland crime boss Pops Den (played by former real-life hard man “Mad” Frankie […]

Aug, 30

The Cowboy Way * (1994, Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono, Marg Helgenberger, Tomas Milian, Luis Guzmán) – Classic Movie Review 11,533

Director Gregg Champion’s unreal, drossy 1994 American action comedy thriller The Cowboy Way stars Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland as Pepper Lewis and Sonny Gilstrap, a couple of modern-day cowboy best buddies up from New Mexico […]

Aug, 30

Crazy Moon [Huggers] *** (1987, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Spence, Vanessa Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 11,532

Director Allan Eastman’s 1987 romance movie Crazy Moon [Huggers] stars Kiefer Sutherland as Brooks, a rich, rebellious teenager with a passion for 1930s suits, furniture and big bands, whose life is suddenly changed by a […]

Aug, 30

Flap [The Last Warrior] (1970, Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Victor Jory, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 11,531

Director Carol Reed’s 1970 American Western film Flap [The Last Warrior] is set in a modern Native American reservation, and stars Anthony Quinn as Flapping Eagle, Claude Akins as Lobo, Tony Bill as Eleven Snowflake, […]

Aug, 29

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