Derek Winnert

The Loved One **** (1965, Robert Morse, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger, Liberace, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer) – Classic Movie Review 5727

Director Tony Richardson turns Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant 1948 satirical novel on the funeral business and Californian burial rites into this funny and ferocious 1965 film farce by Hollywood. It is the golden opportunity for a […]

Jul, 08 · in Uncategorized

The Love Machine * (1971, John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 5726

Originally cast star Brian Kelly was critically hurt in a motorcycle accident that left his right arm and leg paralysed in 1970 and John Phillip Law stepped into his role as oversexed TV personality Robin Stone. News […]

Jul, 07 · in Uncategorized

The Sergeant *** (1968, Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Frank Latimore, Ludmila Mikael) – Classic Movie Review 5725

Director John Flynn’s well-meaning but overheated, and now badly dated 1968 gay melodrama in which Rod Steiger stars as Master Sergeant Albert Callan who understandably gets steamed up over young handsome private Tom Swanson (John […]

Jul, 07

Hurry Sundown * (1967, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, George Kennedy, Rex Ingram) – Classic Movie Review 5724

Producer-director Otto Preminger’s well meaning but lurid and clichéd 1967 movie tells the tale of passion and racial discontent in a Georgia town just after the Second World War, as written by Thomas C Ryan and […]

Jul, 07

Death Rides a Horse [Da uomo a uomo] **** (1967, Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Luigi Pistilli, Anthony Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 5723

John Phillip Law is well remembered for his role as gunfighter Bill Meceita in the Spaghetti Western Death Rides a Horse (1967) with Lee Van Cleef. Co-writer/ director Giulio Petroni’s strong, well regarded 1967 run-of-the-range […]

Jul, 07

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! **** (1966, Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, John Phillip Law) – Classic Movie Review 5,722

Norman Jewison’s hilarious, frenzied 1966 satirical American Cold War comedy film The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! follows the panic and chaos after a Soviet submarine is grounded off a small New England […]

Jul, 06

The Body ** (2001, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, John Shrapnel, Derek Jacobi, Jason Flemyng, John Wood) – Classic Movie Review 5721

Antonio Banderas stars as Roman Catholic priest Father Matt Gutierrez, who is sent to investigate when Christ’s crucified remains are apparently discovered in a Jerusalem cave, in writer-director Jonas McCord’s moderately exciting and compelling 2001 […]

Jul, 06

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