Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Dish ***½ (2000, Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond, Patrick Warburton) – Classic Movie Review 4921

‘Not so long ago, in a country quite far away… The Dish, Houston’s other problem.’ It is July 1969 and, while the world watches Neil Armstrong and the first Apollo landing on the Moon, the […]

Jan, 22 · in Reviews

The Disembodied ** (1957, Paul Burke, Allison Hayes, John Wengraf) – Classic Movie Review 4920

Sultry Allison Hayes stars as Tonda Metz, the wife of tropical doctor Dr Carl Metz (John Wengraf), who sneaks off for voodoo dancing in her fetching sarong and matching tooth necklace and works up to […]

Jan, 22 · in Reviews

Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosets Potyomkin] ***** (1925, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov) – Classic Movie Review 4919

Co-writer/director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet silent movie classic recreates the successful sailors’ revolt against their officers aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in Odessa harbour in 1905 when faced with eating maggot-ridden food. Eisenstein’s dramatised […]

Jan, 22

Beach Party *** (1963, Robert Cummings, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Vincent Price, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 4918

It’s all here – the Sixties, slapstick, songs, satire, sand, sun, sea, surf, and of course sex! What more can you ask for? Oh, subtlety and sophistication, I suppose. Director William Asher’s 1963 American International […]

Jan, 22

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution *** (1976, Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Laurence Olivier) – Classic Movie Review 4,917

Nicol Williamson is oddly cast as Sherlock Holmes, who is tricked by his brother Mycroft (Charles Gray) into travelling to Vienna to be treated by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) to recover from his cocaine addiction. Producer-director Herbert Ross’s 1976 […]

Jan, 22

A Study in Terror *** (1965, John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Robert Morley, Cecil Parker, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Windsor, Adrienne Corri, Judi Dench, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 4916

A Study in Terror was made in Britain in 1965 by the former Oscar-winning documentary maker turned feature director James Hill and stars John Neville and Donald Houston as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in […]

Jan, 21

Murder by Decree **** (1979, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, Frank Finlay, Geneviève Bujold) – Classic Movie Review 4915

Christopher Plummer and James Mason ooze sheer smooth charisma as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who investigate Jack the Ripper’s grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes and uncover a web of corruption, in director Bob Clark’s […]

Jan, 21

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