Derek Winnert

The Comedy of Terrors **** (1963, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joe E Brown) – Classic Movie Review 5385

Vincent Price stars in the funny 1963 black comedy horror movie The Comedy of Terrors as the evil undertaker Waldo Trumbull, who owes a year’s rent and lacks customers, so he finds a neat solution […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

His Majesty O’Keefe ** (1954, Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 5384

‘Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making!’ Director Byron Haskin’s 1954 adventure movie stars Burt Lancaster as an American 19th-century adventurer-sailor, sea captain David Dion O’Keefe, who journeys to the South Seas, where he […]

May, 02 · in Uncategorized

China Gate *** (1957, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat ‘King’ Cole) – Classic Movie Review 5383

Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is gung-ho war adventure stuff, but with considerable edge and intelligence, in which a French-led multinational group of adventurers attack a Communist ammo dump in Indo-China in 1954. […]

May, 02

Apache *** (1954, Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire) – Classic Movie Review 5382

Director Robert Aldrich’s strong, powerfully handled 1954 Western film Apache stars Burt Lancaster, who gives a charismatic, athletic performance as Apache warrior Massai, an alienated Indian leader carrying on a single-handed war against the white […]

May, 02

Forty Guns **** (1957, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, Gene Barry, John Ericson) – Classic Movie Review 5381

Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 Western stars Barbara Stanwyck as ranch-owner, 40 armed-men-owner and queen of Arizona’s Cochise County, Jessica Drummond. Stanwyck’s Jessica Drummond protects her wicked brother Brockie Drummond (John Ericson) against two marshal brothers, […]

May, 02

The Wedding Party ** (1969, Charles Pfluger, Valda Setterfield, Raymond McNally, John Braswell, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, William Finley, Jill Clayburgh) – Classic Movie Review 5380

This wildly comic 1969 film farce is written, produced, edited and directed by theatre professor Wilford Leach and two of his students, protégé Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe, who bankrolled its $43,000 budget. The plot follows the […]

May, 01

Sitcom ***½ (1998, Adrien de Van, Évelyne Dandry, François Marthouret, Marina de Van) – Classic Movie Review 5379

Writer-director François Ozon’s 1998 French surreal black comedy is shockingly funny and, at heart, thoughtful and intelligent. It traces the arrival of a pet rat that causes chaos in the household of a wealthy suburban […]

May, 01

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