Derek Winnert

Battle Cry *** (1955, Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Tab Hunter, Mona Freeman, Dorothy Malone, Raymond Massey, Anne Francis, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 6487

Robust action director Raoul Walsh’s rough, tough, overlong rabble-rousing 1955 war movie Battle Cry follows the dramatic World War Two story of US Marines Major Sam Huxley (Van Heflin), Private Andy Hookens (Aldo Ray) and Corporal Danny Forrester (Tab […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates ** (1956, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 6486

Director Norman Foster’s 1956 cinema feature is the second, less inspiring, of the two Walt Disney films stitched together from hour-long episodes of Fess Parker’s TV series of wholesome children’s outdoor Western adventures. This time […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier *** (1955, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael) – Classic Movie Review 6485

How many ears has Davy Crockett? Three. Two at the side and a wild frontier! Director Norman Foster’s 1955 Western is the first of two Walt Disney cinema features successfully stitched together for cinema audiences […]

Dec, 29

The War Lord *** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis, James Farentino, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 6484

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1965 historical drama film stars Charlton Heston, who plays Chrysagon, a medieval knight who starts trouble by trying to activate an old law of droit de seigneur in 11th-century Normandy. This […]

Dec, 28

War Requiem **** (1989, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 6483

Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1989 film is a magnificent visual interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s 1962 ‘War Requiem’ and evocation of the life and death in the trenches of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen. There […]

Dec, 28

War Party **** (1988, Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon, Tim Sampson) – Classic Movie Review 6482

Director Franc Roddam’s worthy 1989 movie for Hemdale is a modern-day cowboys and Indians saga that starts with the death of a white man during a 100-year anniversary re-enactment of a Blackfeet Indian massacre by the […]

Dec, 28

The War Wagon *** (1967, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr, Keenan Wynn, Bruce Cabot, Gene Evans, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 6481

Played for laughs, director Burt Kennedy’s 1967 movie cracks along at a fine gallop thanks to the sharp screenplay from Clair Huffaker (who adapts his novel The Badman) and the snappy direction. John Wayne (as […]

Dec, 28

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