Derek Winnert

Jungle Woman * (1944, Evelyn Ankers, J Carrol Naish, Acquanetta, Samuel S Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 5241

‘RAPTUROUS BEAUTY!… FURY OF A BEAST!’ Director Reginald LeBorg’s hilariously banal, incredibly cheap-looking 1944 Universal Pictures sequel to 1943’s Captive Wild Woman has an almost identical story of what happens after a second mad scientist, […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Captive Wild Woman ** (1943, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, John Carradine, Martha Vickers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Fay Helm) – Classic Movie Review 5239

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1943 horror movie stars John Carradine as mad scientist Dr Sigmund Walters, who is experimenting in glandular research and transfuses a woman’s blood into the veins of Cheela, the circus ape. Then, […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Captives *** (1994, Julia Ormond, Tim Roth, Siobhan Redmond, Keith Allen, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 5238

Director Angela Pope’s 1994 cinema debut is a challenging drama, with Julia Ormond well cast as a young English dentist who starts a passionate, secret affair with a prisoner patient (Tim Roth) moving towards the […]

Apr, 02

Sweet as You Are **** (1987, Miranda Richardson, Liam Neeson, Alex Pakenham) – Classic Movie Review 5,235

Angela Pope’s urgent 1987 British TV drama film Sweet as You Are stars Liam Neeson as a married college lecturer who finds out that he is carrying the HIV virus after a one night stand […]

Apr, 02

Holy Man ** (1998, Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer) – Classic Movie Review 5234

Jeff Goldblum steals Eddie Murphy’s limelight as Ricky, a TV home shopping channel boss, whose chance meeting with itinerant mystic G (Murphy) gives him an idea to reverse his sales slump and save his job […]

Apr, 02

Sweet Bird of Youth *** (1989, Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Rip Torn, Valerie Perrine, Ruta Lee, Kevin Geer) – Classic Movie Review 5237

Director Nicolas Roeg’s interesting 1989 TV movie version of the Tennessee Williams play is reworked by teleplay writer Gavin Lambert, apparently using the playwright’s own revisions, though these are not always an improvement on the […]

Apr, 02

Sweet Bird of Youth **** (1962, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Mildred Dunnock, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight) – Classic Movie Review 5236

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1962 movie is a really rather impressive, fine and resonant film version of this esteemed and typical Tennessee Williams play. Paul Newman gives an attractive performance as the ambitious but charming young […]

Apr, 02

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