Derek Winnert

Horizons West **** (1952, Robert Ryan, Rock Hudson, James Arness, Julie Adams, Raymond Burr, John McIntire, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 5397

‘Buckle up for LAWLESS RUTHLESS DEFIANCE!’ Director Budd Boetticher’s 1952 Western movie Horizons West is a superior item, with both story-telling and film-making on a high level. Robert Ryan and Rock Hudson star as Texan […]

May, 05 · in Uncategorized

Hopscotch *** (1980, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom, George Baker) – Classic Movie Review 5396

Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, the hit star pairing from 1978’s House Calls, re-team to good but lesser effect in director Ronald Neame’s uneven but still sparky 1980 spy spoof. Based on the novel by […]

May, 05 · in Uncategorized

House Calls **** (1978, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 5,395

Director Howard Zieff’s 1978 screwball comedy film House Calls stars Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, who make an unlikely but delightful romantic comedy team, in this funny doctoring satire set against a hospital background. Matthau […]

May, 05

Slither **** (1972, James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman) – Classic Movie Review 5394

Director Howard Zieff’s 1972 this amusing and delightful, zany, darkly comic lowlife crime thriller stars James Caan as ex-con Dick Kanipsia, who chase after a stash of cash with a charming collection of crazies – […]

May, 05

Hearts of the West **** (1975, Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin) – Classic Movie Review 5393

Director Howard Zieff’s amusing, delightful and intelligent 1975 comedy explores the vanished world of cheap B-movie Hollywood Westerns with great with sympathy and charm, and a lovely warm-hearted sense of humour. The young Jeff Bridges […]

May, 05

The Web *** (1947, Edmond O’Brien, Vincent Price, Ella Raines, William Bendix) – Classic Movie Review 5392

Director Michael Gordon’s fascinating 1947 film noir stars Vincent Price as a murdering, thieving industrialist who hires a lawyer (Edmond O’Brien) as his bodyguard and implicates him as the killer in the murder he’s committed. […]

May, 04

Godzilla vs Gigan * (1972, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima) – Classic Movie Review 5391

Godzilla [Gojira], the dinosaur with radio-active breath, pals up with spiky-backed giant Angorus [Anguirus] to save trembling Earthlings from a devilish duo of space monster invaders – metallic bird Gigan [Gaigan] and King Ghidrah, the […]

May, 04

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