Derek Winnert

The Intruder [The Stranger] **** (1962, William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford) – Classic Movie Review 3777

Producer-director Roger Corman’s provocative and harrowing 1962 drama stars William Shatner as white-suited fervent habitual racist Adam Cramer, who comes into Southern American towns inciting racism and revolt over enforced school integration. But, as violence escalates, a […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

The Leopard Man **** (1943, Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 3761

Director Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1943 film noir horror thriller for producer Val Lewton boasts a marvellously eerie atmosphere thanks to Tourneur’s skills and Robert De Grasse’s beautiful and evocative camerawork. And the music by Roy […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

The Strangler *** (1963, Victor Buono, David McLean, Ellen Corby, Diane Sayer, Jeanne Bates) – Classic Movie Review 3760

Victor Buono, fresh from his success in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), is creepily effective as lab technician Leo Kroll, a mountainous, mother-mad maniac who bumps off nurses in director Burt Topper’s cheaply made, but gripping […]

May, 28

The Flying Saucer * (1950, Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Virginia Hewitt) – Classic Movie Review 3759

‘Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror! ‘ In 1950, only a year after the world’s first Flying Saucer was supposedly sighted in the Washington hills, writer-producer-director Mikel Conrad came up with […]

May, 28

Invasion of the Star Creatures * (1962, Robert Ball, Frankie Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3776

Robert Ball and Frankie Ray are putridly unfunny as Private Philbrick and Private Penn, US soldiers who investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and uncover the titular lady alien Star Creatures (Dolores Reed […]

May, 28

Invasion of the Saucer Men [Invasion of the Hell Creatures] ** (1957, Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton, Lyn Osborn, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 3,759

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) has irresistible ingredients: a flying saucer landing in the woods, tiny aliens with giant heads and exposed brains, a creature run down by teens, a mobile alien severed hand, […]

May, 27

The Strange World of Planet X [Cosmic Monsters] ** (1958, Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 3758

Director Gilbert Gunn’s 1958 British sci-fi movie stars Alec Mango as British scientist Doctor Laird, who is experimenting with the Earth’s magnetic field along with his team. But, just when when their insect enlarging contraption […]

May, 27

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