Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Revenge **** (2017, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe) – Movie Review

Coralie Fargeat’s full-on feminist French thriller Revenge (2017) is stonkingly intense, exciting and brilliantly shot (by Robrecht Heyvaert), with an interesting, playfully post-modern take on the war between men and women. There is more flesh […]

May, 20

Back to School * (1986, Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 7073

Director Alan Metter’s unpleasing 1986 comedy is a shoddy, obvious and unfunny vehicle for an unappealing star in Rodney Dangerfield, who plays Thornton Melon, an uncouth middle-aged millionaire signing up as a college freshman to […]

May, 20

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