Derek Winnert

Dunston Checks In *** (1996, Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 3869

Director Ken Kwapis’s daft 1996 family adventure comedy stars Jason Alexander as luxurious Majestic Hotel manager Robert Grant, who can handle anything – until thieving orangutan Dunston checks in. Rupert Everett is classy as the […]

Jun, 15 · in Reviews

The Dunwich Horror *** (1970, Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, Lloyd Bochner, Talia Shire) – Classic Movie Review 3868

Director Daniel Haller’s creepy and atmospheric 1970 occult thriller is cannily adapted from a short story by H P Lovecraft. It stars Dean Stockwell as weird Wilbur Whateley, the handsome warlock, and Sandra Dee as […]

Jun, 15 · in Reviews

The Wild Angels *** (1966, Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 3867

‘Their credo is violence…Their God is hate…and they call themselves The Wild Angels.’ Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1966 cheaply made ($360,000) biker gang movie, made with help from real California Hell’s Angels and the young Peter […]

Jun, 15

Psych-Out *** (1968, Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Henry Jaglom) – Classic Movie Review 3868

‘These are the PLEASURE LOVERS! They’ll ask for a dime with hungry eyes… but they’ll give you love– for NOTHING!’ Or maybe this sells it better: ‘Hear Incense & Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock’. […]

Jun, 15

The Trip *** (1967, Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3866

Director Roger Corman’s infamous 1967 drugs exploitation psychedelic movie is notable for Jack Nicholson writing the intriguing if disjointed screenplay. The story focuses on young television commercial director Paul Groves (Peter Fonda, convincing) who gets into a state […]

Jun, 15

Hells Angels on Wheels ** (1967, Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf) – Classic Movie Review 3865

The young Jack Nicholson’s presence as a gas station attendant – or petrol pump worker – called Poet confers cult status on director Richard Rush’s interesting and amusingly dated, if rather draggy 1967 biker movie […]

Jun, 15

Hell’s Angels **** (1930, Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow) – Classic Movie Review 3863

Ben Lyon stars as cowardly Monte Rutledge with James Hall as his heroic brother Roy Rutledge, who are both studying at Oxford University as the film begins. The two dissimilar brothers promptly leave to sign […]

Jun, 15

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