Derek Winnert

Love Streams **** (1984, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 5753

John Cassavetes’s 1984 film Love Streams is his final solo feature and tells the agonising story of a troubled middle-aged brother (Cassavetes) and sister (Gena Rowlands), abandoned by their loved ones. Sarah Lawson (played by […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Seven Keys to Baldpate *** (1947, Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Shields, Jimmy Conlin, Tony Barrett, Richard Powers) – Classic Movie Review 5752

Director Lew Landers’s 1947 RKO Radio Pictures American mystery thriller film Seven Keys to Baldpate is the seventh attempt to film the Earl Derr Biggers novel, in an attractive movie that is quite tense, pacy […]

Jul, 13 · in Reviews

Escape from the Planet of the Apes *** (1971, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Sal Mineo, Eric Braeden) – Classic Movie Review 5751

Director Don Taylor’s 1971 Sci-Fi action thriller is the welcome part three in the original Ape saga, in which educated monkeys Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) flee in a capsule from the holocaust of part […]

Jul, 13

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes *** (1972, Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden) – Classic Movie Review 5750

Director J Lee Thompson takes the helm in 1972 for the fourth of the five original Planet of the Apes films (a short TV series followed) in which the apes, who are being used as […]

Jul, 13

Battle for the Planet of the Apes ** (1973, Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy) – Classic Movie Review 5749

Director J Lee Thompson returns in 1973 to helm the fifth and final cinema outing in the original series for the intelligent, distinguished sci-fi franchise, in which, after a nuclear war, the apes are the […]

Jul, 12

A Kid for Two Farthings **** (1955, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 5748

‘CAROL REED, the master of The Unexpected, brings you a motion picture of mood and emotion that surpasses all your expectations!’ Director Carol Reed’s sweet, ingratiating 1955 film A Kid for Two Farthings, about a […]

Jul, 12

The Weak and the Wicked [Young and Willing] **** (1954, Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors, Rachel Roberts, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 5747

‘Confessions of an Ex-Convict Who Strips Bare the Raw Facts!’ Co-writer/ director J Lee Thompson’s 1953 British prison drama stars a formidable sextet in Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Jane Hylton, Rachel Roberts and Sidney […]

Jul, 12

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