Derek Winnert

Reviews

Sharks’ Treasure ** (1975, Cornel Wilde, Yaphet Kotto, John Neilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,240

The 1975 action adventure film Sharks’ Treasure tells an antique-style sunken treasure yarn that is given an odd twist by its writer-star-producer-director Cornel Wilde, who sermonises against tobacco and drink (‘every ounce of alcohol you […]

Aug, 30

Where the Buffalo Roam **** (1980, Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R G Armstrong, Rafael Campos, Leonard Frey) – Classic Movie Review 10,239

Director Art Linson’s 1980 Where the Buffalo Roam stars Bill Murray as the spaced-out, drug-addicted gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson and Peter Boyle as his unorthodox attorney Oscar Acosta (here called Carl Lazlo) in this […]

Aug, 30

The Singing Nun ** (1966, Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 10,238

Director Henry Koster’s 1966 biographical family drama The Singing Nun stars Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson and Agnes Moorehead. Apparently Reynolds called it her favourite role: had she forgotten Singin’ in the Rain? Nuns […]

Aug, 29

The Sign of the Cross *** (1932, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 10,237

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille returned to the Paramount Pictures studio to make the salacious, eye-popping 1932 black and white historical epic The Sign of the Cross, which he turned into a box-office smash, after shooting […]

Aug, 29

Le Silence Est d’Or [Man About Town] *** (1947, Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien) – Classic Movie Review 10,236

Set around the turn of the last century (it is 1910), writer/ producer/ director René Clair’s mildly charming 1947 Le Silence Est d’Or [Silence Is Golden] [Man About Town] is his first movie back home […]

Aug, 28

Signpost to Murder ** (1964, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 10,235

The 1964 American crime mystery thriller film Signpost to Murder stars Stuart Whitman as an escaped wife-murderer who finds a hiding place with a lonely woman (Joanne Woodward). Director George Englund’s 1964 American film Signpost […]

Aug, 28

The Siege at Red River *** (1954, Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 10,234

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1954 film The Siege at Red River is a ploddingly written but fast-paced, well-edited and beautifully shot conveyor-belt Technicolor Western with all the usual ingredients — Civil War, marauding Indians, etc — […]

Aug, 28

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