Derek Winnert

Viva Las Vegas *** (1964, Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova) – Classic Movie Review 3898

Director George Sidney’s 1964 musical is one of Elvis Presley’s most irresistible showcases, thanks partly to an on-form star with some good songs to perform, partly to a zestful co-star in Ann-Margret, partly to the […]

Jun, 21 · in Uncategorized

Von Richthofen and Brown [The Red Baron] **** (1971, John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3,897

Roger Corman’s highly entertaining 1971 comic-strip-style period action adventure film Von Richthofen and Brown [The Red Baron] stars John Phillip Law and Don Stroud in a tale of World War One dogfights. Director Roger Corman’s […]

Jun, 21 · in Reviews

The St Valentine’s Day Massacre **** (1967, Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 3,896

Jason Robards stars as the notorious mobster Al Capone, and Ralph Meeker plays his deadly rival ‘Bugs’ Moran, in Roger Corman’s modish 1967 cult gangster movie The St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Producer-director Roger Corman’s modish 1967 cult […]

Jun, 20

Conspirators of Pleasure [Spiklenci slasti] *** (1996, Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová) – Classic Movie Review 3895

‘The first entirely erotic film without coitus!’ Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer’s third feature mixes live action and animation in a barrage of ideas, eye-boggling images and dark sex comedy. ‘My film blends such diverse forms […]

Jun, 20

Stage Door Canteen **** (1943, William Terry, Cheryl Walker, Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead) – Classic Movie Review 3,894

Franz Borzage’s glittering 1943 movie Stage Door Canteen is essential viewing for a nostalgic star-spotting look at Broadway’s and Hollywood’s Forties élite. It features 48 stars and six bands.  The 1943 American World War Two […]

Jun, 20

The Lost Patrol **** (1934, Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J M Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3893

John Ford’s 1934 wartime adventure film tells a still stirring classic tale of a World War One British army patrol of a dozen soldiers lost in the Mesopotamian desert and facing constant sniper attacks from unseen […]

Jun, 20

The Lost Moment *** (1947, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3892

The 1947 film noir-style romantic drama The Lost Moment is an attractively atmospheric oddity, based on Henry James’s 1888 novella The Aspern Papers. It greatly alters the characters and adds schizophrenia, a murder and a […]

Jun, 20

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