Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Panther’s Claw **½ (1942, Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson, Gerta Rozan, Lynn Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4294

Sidney Blackmer takes over from Adolphe Menjou as tough Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt for director William Beaudine’s 1942 belated third Colt film, this time from PRC studios. Extortion leads to homicide at the opera and […]

Sep, 03 · in Uncategorized

The Night Club Lady *** (1932, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Ruthelma Stevens, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 4293

This nifty mystery movie is the second film in Adolphe Menjou’s two-film Columbia Pictures’ series, followed by The Circus Queen Murder (1933). It is available to be seen on Turner Classic Movies. Menjou stars as top cop police […]

Sep, 03 · in Uncategorized

The Circus Queen Murder *** (1933, Adolphe Menjou, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens, Dwight Frye, Donald Cook, Harry Holman) – Classic Movie Review 4292

‘MURDER WITH THOUSANDS OF EYE WITNESSES…but NO ONE COULD TELL HOW OR WHY SHE MET HER DEATH!’ Adolphe Menjou stars as police commissioner Thatcher Colt, who is on holiday in upstate New York with his […]

Sep, 03

Circus of Fear [Psycho-Circus] ** (1966, Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Suzy Kendall, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 4,291

An armoured car is robbed on London’s Tower Bridge. The 1966 Anglo-German thriller film Circus of Fear is based on Edgar Wallace’s novel Again the Three Just Men, and stars Christopher Lee, Suzy Kendall, Leo […]

Sep, 03

The City Under the Sea [War Gods of the Deep] *** (1965, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart) – Classic Movie Review 4290

Vincent Price is highly effective as the ruler of an ancient underwater kingdom in director Jacques Tourneur’s innocuously entertaining 1965 fantasy adventure inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe poem. In a familiar Poe theme, Price’s […]

Sep, 03

Circus of Horrors *** (1960, Anton Diffring, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton, Conrad Phillips, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 4,289

Anton Diffring relishes his star role in the 1960 British horror film Circus of Horrors as a demented plastic surgeon with a perverted passion for disfiguring women, who moonlights as the boss of a circus […]

Sep, 03

The City of the Dead [Horror Hotel] *** (1960, Christopher Lee, Dennis Lotis, Patricia Jessel, Betta St John, Valentine Dyall, Venetia Stevenson, Tom Naylor) – Classic Movie Review 4288

College professor Christopher Lee sends his student Venetia Stevenson to a creepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft, in John Moxey’s rough-edged but effective 1960 British horror movie The City of the Dead [Horror Hotel]. Venetia […]

Sep, 03

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