Derek Winnert

Reviews

Johnny Come Lately ** (1943, James Cagney, Grace George, Marjorie Main, Hattie McDaniel) – Classic Movie Review 11,447

Director William K Howard’s 1943 drama Johnny Come Lately [Johnny Vagabond] stars James Cagney as down-on-his-luck newsman Tom Richards, who is in court on trial for being a vagrant in the small American town of […]

Aug, 05

Beach Blanket Bingo ** (1965, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, Linda Evans, Paul Lynde, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 11,446

“These kids are nuts.” Frankie (Frankie Avalon) takes up skydiving, prompting Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) also to try free-falling, in the 1965 fifth beach party film Beach Blanket Bingo. Director William Asher’s 1965 American International […]

Aug, 04

Johnny Concho *** (1956, Frank Sinatra, Keenan Wynn, William Conrad, Phyllis Kirk, Wallace Ford, John Qualen, Jean Byron, Claude Akins, Dorothy Adams) – Classic Movie Review 11,445

Johnny Concho (1956) is Frank Sinatra’s first Western, playing against type as the villainous anti-hero. Director Don McGuire’s pseudo-psychological 1956 black and white Western film Johnny Concho stars Frank Sinatra as the mean and boastful […]

Aug, 04

Please Murder Me! ** (1956, Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 11,440

Angela Lansbury stars as an unfaithful murderess, defended in court by loving lawyer Raymond Burr. Director Peter Godfrey’s 1956 film noir thriller Please Murder Me! stars Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr. Angela Lansbury was in a […]

Aug, 02

The Big Cube * (1969, Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Dan O’Herlihy, Richard Egan, Karin Mossberg) – Classic Movie Review 11,439

Director Tito Davison’s 1969 psychological thriller drama The Big Cube stars Lana Turner, in real life freshly married for the seventh time, who went to Mexico for this tedious, laughable piece about a newly-wed, ageing […]

Aug, 02

Requiescant *** (1967, Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Barbara Frey, Rossana Martini, Mirella Maravidi) – Classic Movie Review 11,438

Lou Castel stars as Requiescant and Mark Damon plays the flamboyant Ferguson in the strange, cultish and entertaining 1967 spaghetti Western film Requiescant, also starring Pier Paolo Pasolini. Producer-director Carlo Lizzani’s Italian/ German co-production 1967 […]

Aug, 01

Reprisal! *** (1956, Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant, Michael Pate, Edward Platt) – Classic Movie Review 11,437

‘A HANGING TREE AT ONE END OF TOWN… and a wanton girl in jeopardy at the other.’ Director George Sherman’s strong and sterling 1956 Columbia Pictures Technicolor Western film Reprisal! is based on the novel […]

Aug, 01

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