Derek Winnert

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Dragonslayer **** (1981, Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 8746

It’s the powers of good, represented by sorcerer’s apprentice Galen (Peter MacNicol), against one of the screen’s most impressive dragons, Vermithrax Pejorative, in the dark ages of the sixth-century kingdom of Urland. Director Matthew Robbins’s […]

Jul, 22

Motel Hell ** (1980, Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 8745

Rory Calhoun stars as an extremely creepy old man called Farmer Vincent Smith, who runs the Motel Hello with his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons), and sells meat that originates with the customers – unsuspecting kidnapped […]

Jul, 22

Sweeney 2 *** (1978, John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Denholm Elliott, Barry Stanton, Nigel Hawthorne, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 8744

Director Tom Clegg’s 1978 Sweeney 2 is the slightly disappointing, less good sequel to the successful 1977 big-screen movie spinoff Sweeney! from the hit John Thaw and Dennis Waterman TV series. The London Flying Squad […]

Jul, 22

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

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