Derek Winnert

The Naked Prey *** (1966, Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Den Berg, Patrick Mynhardt) – Classic Movie Review 7079

‘Stripped, weaponless, alone and only ten desperate seconds ahead of the killers!’ Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1966 movie The Naked Prey is a tough, demanding and excellent 19th-century jungle adventure thriller starring himself as the safari guide The […]

May, 21 · in Reviews

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House **** (2017, Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas) – Movie Review

Fascinating story, really well told. Neeson excellent. Writer-director Peter Landesman’s riveting 2017 biographical historical drama Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is a fascinating story, really well told. Landesman’s screenplay is most satisfying […]

May, 21 · in Reviews

The Bedford Incident ***** (1965, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Wally Cox, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 7,078

The 1965 Cold War thriller film The Bedford Incident stars Richard Widmark as skipper of the American guided missile destroyer USS Bedford, who obsessively hunts a Soviet submarine. Producer-director James B Harris’s 1965 British-American Cold War thriller film The […]

May, 21

Bedelia *** (1946, Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K Barnes, Anne Crawford, Jill Esmond) – Classic Movie Review 7077

Director Lance Comfort’s 1946 British thriller Bedelia stars Margaret Lockwood, who leads a novelettish, splendidly trashy murder mystery that was a big success of the day, perhaps surprising so given its lack of real quality. […]

May, 21

Assault on a Queen * (1966, Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 7076

Virna Lisi and Alf Kjellin star as Eurocrooks Rosa Lucchesi and Eric Lauffnauer, who employ Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) to lead a band of treasure hunting conmen to reuse a recovered refloated old wartime German submarine to […]

May, 21

None But the Brave *** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Tony Bill, Brad Dexter, Tatsuya Mihashi) – Classic Movie Review 7075

Frank Sinatra directs himself for the first time in this quality 1965 World War Two war drama about a platoon of US Marines who crash-land on a tiny far-off island in the Pacific, where they […]

May, 21

The Naked Runner ** (1967, Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 7074

Director Sidney J Furie’s run-of-the-mill British 1967 Cold War spy thriller The Naked Runner, based on the novel by Francis Clifford, is often preposterous but thankfully livened up considerably with flashy Sixties visuals so at […]

May, 21

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