Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes ** (1969, Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 10,963

Director Robert Butler’s 1969 sci-fi family comedy film The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes stars the 18-year-old Kurt Russell as student Dexter Riley, who gets his wires in a twist and becomes a genius thanks to […]

Feb, 25

Confessions of a Sex Maniac [The Man Who Couldn’t Get Enough] (1974, Roger Lloyd Pack, Vicki Hodge, Derek Royle) – Classic Movie Review 10,962

The tacky 1974 British sex farce film Confessions of a Sex Maniac has a rubbish script and a cast of struggling actors, who deserve better, though star Roger Lloyd Pack carries on regardless. ‘They said […]

Feb, 25

The Condemned of Altona [I Sequestrati di Altona] ** (1962, Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 10,961

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1962 CinemaScope and black and white Italian-French drama The Condemned of Altona [I Sequestrati di Altona] stars Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March and Robert Wagner, with the international version dubbed. […]

Feb, 25

The Man from Bitter Ridge ** (1955, Lex Barker, Mara Corday, Stephen McNally, Trevor Bardette, John Dehner, Ray Teal, Warren Stevens, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 10,955

‘FLAMING DAYS of the Great Mountain Wars!’ Rather primitive acting and basic scripting hold back the interesting and pacy 1955 Universal International Pictures B-movie Eastmancolor Western film The Man from Bitter Ridge. But the political […]

Feb, 23

Man Friday ** (1975, Peter O’Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier) – Classic Movie Review 10,954

‘Master’s law was one of order. Friday’s law was one of life. Each tried to overcome the other!’ Director Jack Gold’s 1975 British adventure drama film Man Friday is a revisionist version of Daniel Defoe’s […]

Feb, 22

Man Bites Dog (1992, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert) – Classic Movie Review 10,951

Unluckily for us, Benoît Poelvoorde plays a thieving psychopathic serial killer called Ben, who takes a camera crew around with him to film his murders, in the 1992 Belgian satirical black comedy mockumentary film Man […]

Feb, 22

The Man Between ***½ (1953, James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef) – Classic Movie Review 10,950

‘Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!’ James Mason stars as the mystery man in the middle of Carol Reed’s atmospheric Fifties Cold War film noir espionage thriller/ crime drama The Man Between (1953), based […]

Feb, 22

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