Derek Winnert

The Only Game in Town *** (1970, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Charles Braswell) – Classic Movie Review 6953

‘Dice was his vice. Men hers.’ In his last film, distinguished director George Stevens abandoned epic statements for a small-scale story, based on Frank D Gilroy’s play, with a screenplay written by Frank D Gilroy. […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Only the Valiant *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney Jr, Barbara Payton, Neville Brand, Jeff Corey, Warner Anderson, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 6952

‘THEY WERE SIX AND THEY FOUGHT LIKE SIX HUNDRED!’ Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 Western is based on the 1943 novel by Charles Marquis Warren and is basically a dirty-half-dozen, with plenty of manly appeal. Gregory Peck […]

Apr, 21 · in Reviews

Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning] ** (1981, Tricia O’Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen) – Classic Movie Review 6951

Jeff Schechtman, the co-producer of Piranha (1978), went on to produce a troubled sequel, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning], in 1981, directed by James Cameron no less. It stars Tricia O’Neil […]

Apr, 20

Powder ** (1995, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Lance Henriksen) – Classic Movie Review 6950

Writer/ director Victor Salva’s 1995 drama Powder is a weird Buena Vista Pictures [Walt Disney] teen fantasy tale of a freakish, bald, deathly-white misfit teenager (Sean Patrick Flanery) with paranormal powers, who realises his potential through […]

Apr, 20

Powder River ** (1953, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Corinne Calvet) – Classic Movie Review 6949

Director Louis King’s 1953 Western stars Cameron Mitchell as Mitch Herdin, an alcoholic doctor with a brain tumour, who helps new Wyatt Earp-like marshal Chino Bullock (Rory Calhoun), who is trying to find his prospecting […]

Apr, 20

The Fugitive Kind *** (1960, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani) – Classic Movie Review 6948

‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]

Apr, 19

Frontier Marshal **** (1939, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Cesar Romero, Jon Hall, John Carradine, Binnie Barnes, Joe Sawyer, Lon Chaney Jr, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 6947

‘I’M THE LAW IN TOMBSTONE.’ Director Allan Dwan 1939 Western is the second film of Stuart N Lake’s book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, following Lewis Seiler’s Frontier Marshal (1934). Lake’s biography, published two years after Earp’s death […]

Apr, 19

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