Derek Winnert

Bronco Billy *** (1980, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney) – Classic Movie Review 4106

Director Clint Eastwood’s 1980 movie paid the price at the box office with fewer customers than usual for an Eastwood movie, thanks largely to Dennis E Hackin’s screenplay being on the inconsequential and preachy side. […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

Any Which Way You Can **½ (1980, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Guardino, Glen Campbell, William Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4105

Director Buddy Van Horn’s ragged but lusty 1980 action adventure Any Which Way You Can is the hasty sequel to Clint Eastwood’s surprise 1978 hit Every Which Way But Loose. It finds the ever-popular star […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

Every Which Way But Loose *** (1978, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Ruth Gordon, Beverly D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 4104

Director James Fargo’s 1978 action adventure is robust, punchy knockabout entertainment, with an ideal, tailor-made role for Clint Eastwood as pickup truck driver turned bare-knuckle prize-fighting Philo Beddoe. Every which way you look there are screenloads of […]

Jul, 30

Duel in the Sun **** (1946, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 4,103

David Selznick’s rousing 1946 Technicolor Western film Duel in the Sun is blatantly obvious, luridly colourful and terribly kitsch. It was derided at the time as ‘Lust in the Dust’. Producer David Selznick’s rousing 1946 […]

Jul, 30

Lust in the Dust *** (1985, Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan) – Classic Movie Review 4,102

The still outrageously tacky Seventies drag star Divine and the still very handsome Fifties and Sixties heart-throb Tab Hunter (nicknamed The Sigh Guy) reunite for the saucy, funny 1984 spaghetti Western spoof Lust in the […]

Jul, 30

Mondo Trasho *** (1969, Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4101

A bizarre, insane 1969 early macabre comedy feature from John Waters, the Pope of Trash, who shows that anyone can make a movie, provided you’ve got some colourful friends. It is his first feature after […]

Jul, 30

Desperate Living *** (1977, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 4100

John Waters’s 1977 gross-out bad taste comedy stars Mink Stole as desperately unhappy, crazy rich housewife Peggy Gravel who smothers her hubby to death, helped by her enormously tubby maid Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill), who […]

Jul, 30

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