Derek Winnert

Reviews

Cash on Demand **** (1961, Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 10,836

Hammer Films’ tense, pacy 1961 British film noir crime thriller Cash On Demand boasts a very fine performance from Peter Cushing as an efficiency-obsessed bank manager forced to help a suave but ruthless robber (André […]

Jan, 27

A Man Called Sledge *** (1970, James Garner, Dennis Weaver, Claude Akins, John Marley, Laura Antonelli) – Classic Movie Review 10,835

‘Savage. Ornery, Beautiful! When SLEDGE hits town it stays hit!’ The actor Vic Morrow co-wrote and directed the very violent 1970 Spaghetti Western film A Man Called Sledge, starring James Garner as an outlaw man […]

Jan, 27

The Man Who Finally Died ** (1963, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Green, Alfred Burke, Eric Portman, Georgina Ward) – Classic Movie Review 10,834

The very Welsh Stanley Baker stars as Joe Newman, who goes back to his German roots to search in Bavaria for information about what became of his father in the Second World War and is […]

Jan, 26

I Was a Spy *** (1933, Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 10,829

‘TO ANSWER THE LURE OF HER LIPS WAS FATAL!’ Director Victor Saville’s 1933 I Was a Spy stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, a real-life World War One nurse who in German-occupied Belgium in 1914 […]

Jan, 25

Lancer Spy *** (1937, Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 10,828

‘The most extraordinary venture a man ever faced… the most suspenseful story ever filmed – because it is REAL!’ Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1937 Lancer Spy is a sharp and entertaining World War One spy thriller, […]

Jan, 25

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan **** (1953, Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Peter Finch, Eileen Herlie, Dinah Sheridan, Isabel Dean) – Classic Movie Review 10,827

Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1953 The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan [The Great Gilbert and Sullivan] is very jolly musical biopic entertainment, low on story, high on lovely operetta excerpts, charmingly sung and staged, attractively played […]

Jan, 25

Land Raiders ** (1970, Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl, Janet Landgard) – Classic Movie Review 10,826

‘To Hell With The Gringos! They rob our land! Violate our women! Take our lives! NOW IT’S OUR TURN TO TASTE BLOOD!’ Director Nathan H Juran’s tolerable, typically blood-thirsty 1970 American spaghetti Western Technicolor film […]

Jan, 25

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