Derek Winnert

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I Vinti [The Vanquished] **** (1953, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Etchika Choureau, Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Patrick Barr, Fay Compton, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 8742

Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s thematically linked 1953 anthology drama I Vinti [The Vanquished] stars Jean-Pierre Mocky, Etchika Choureau, Franco Interlenghi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Patrick Barr, Fay Compton and Eduardo Ciannelli. It tells three stories about well-off […]

Jul, 21

Second Chance *** (1953, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell) – Classic Movie Review 8717

‘For the First Time –3D With Important Stars!’ Director Rudolph Maté’s 1953 3D Technicolor crime thriller Second Chance stars Robert Mitchum as troubled, hard-drinking prizefighter Russ Lambert, who falls for gangster’s moll Clare Sinclair (Linda […]

Jul, 16

The Secret of Blood Island ** (1965, Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley, Patrick Wymark, Charles Tingwell, Bill Owen, Lee Montague) – Classic Movie Review 8713

Director Quentin Lawrence’s 1964 The Secret of Blood Island is a Hammer Films World War Two adventure movie that follows British secret agent Elaine (Barbara Shelley) on a mission to a concentration camp in enemy-occupied […]

Jul, 15

A Pair of Briefs ** (1962, Michael Craig, Mary Peach, Brenda de Banzie, James Robertson Justice, Roland Culver, Liz Fraser, Ron Moody) – Classic Movie Review 8699

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1962 A Pair of Briefs comes with an innuendo-laden title that is just about the funniest thing in this draggy and dated British black and white comedy about young battling barristers (Michael […]

Jul, 12

Zulu Dawn ** (1979, Peter O’Toole, Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Michael Jayston, Ronald Pickup, Bob Hoskins, Ronald Lacey, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8697

A fine cast is generally reliable if not particularly well used in director Douglas Hickox’s 1979 Zulu Dawn, a prequel to the 1964 Zulu, which focuses on the stubborn British commanders who lead their troops […]

Jul, 12

Freddy Got Fingered (2001, Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan) – Classic Movie Review 8696

Co-writer/ director Tom Green’s 2001 comedy Freddy Got Fingered stars Tom Green as failing unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody, who is forced to move back home where he ends up weaving a web of lies designed […]

Jul, 11

Caravan * (1934, Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8695

Director Erik Charrell’s 1934 Caravan is a flop piece of musical romantic whimsy with a strained script and mediocre songs, and poor Charles Boyer struggling as Latzi, a Hungarian violinist trapped between Countess Wilma (Loretta […]

Jul, 11

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