Derek Winnert

Reviews

It’s Never Too Late to Mend *** (1937, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,873

Director David MacDonald’s 1937 black and white Victorian melodramas It’s Never Too Late to Mend stars Tod Slaughter, who extravagantly holds the attention as Squire John Meadows, the wicked Victorian lord of the manor (and […]

Feb, 03

Greed in the Sun [Cent mille dollars au soleil] *** (1964, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Gert Fröbe, Bernard Blier, Reginald Kernan, Andréa Parisy) – Classic Movie Review 10,874

Director Henri Verneuil’s 1964 Greed in the Sun [Cent Mille Dollars au Soleil] is a fast-moving, proficient and enjoyable imported French road movie action thriller, involving a wild chase over the Saharan desert for a […]

Feb, 03

The Flesh and the Fiends [Mania] *** (1960, Peter Cushing, June Laverick, George Rose, Donald Pleasence, Renée Houston, Billie Whitelaw, Dermot Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 10,872

Peter Cushing stars in The Flesh and the Fiends as medical doctor Robert Knox who buys human corpses for research from the real-life murderous Burke (George Rose) and Hare (Donald Pleasence) in 1828 Edinburgh. ‘A […]

Feb, 03

The Greed of William Hart [Horror Maniacs] ** (1948, Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Aubrey Woods, Patrick Addison, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville, Arnold Bell) – Classic Movie Review 10,871

Director Oswald Mitchell’s 1948 black and white horror movie The Greed of William Hart [Horror Maniacs] is a lip-smacking, body-snatching British low-budget feature that stars the appropriately named Tod Slaughter as corpse-pincher William Hart, though […]

Feb, 02

Curse of the Undead ** (1959, Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley) – Classic Movie Review 10,870

‘HIS BODY IS AN EMPTY SHELL THAT HOSTS A LUSTFUL FIEND!. Co-writer/ director Edward Dein’s 1959 Universal International Pictures black and white mix of drama, horror and romance Curse of the Undead stars Michael Pate as […]

Feb, 02

The Curse of the Wraydons [Strangler’s Morgue] ** (1946, Bruce Seton, Henry Caine, Pearl Cameron) – Classic Movie Review 10,869

‘At the opening of the last century this island of ours stood alone facing the menace of Buonaparte’s mastery of Europe. At this vital moment there were a few traitorous Englishmen willing to sell their […]

Feb, 02

Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

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