Derek Winnert

The Dark Eyes of London [The Human Monster] *** (1939, Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams) – Classic Movie Review 3,765

Bela Lugosi stars in the 1939 British horror film The Dark Eyes of London as the mysterious monstrous maniac Dr Orloff who commits a series of murders for insurance money. Director Walter Summers’s 1939 British […]

May, 23 · in Reviews

The Scarf *** (1951, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Emlyn Williams, James Barton, Lloyd Gough, Basil Ruysdael) – Classic Movie Review 3764

Writer-director Ewald André Dupont’s weird and wonderful screenplay pits John Howard Barrington (played by John Ireland) and his sidekick, Cash and Carry Connie Carter (played by Mercedes McCambridge), a scarf-wearing waitress not averse to belting out […]

May, 23 · in Reviews

The Flying Serpent ** (1946, George Zucco, Ralph Lewis, Hope Kramer, Eddie Acuff, Wheaton Chambers, James Metcalf, Henry Hall, Milton Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 3,747

George Zucco stars as demented archaeologist Professor Andrew Forbes in Sam Newfield’s similarly suitably demented 1946 Poverty Row horror movie The Flying Serpent. The ripe and admirable George Zucco enlivens a Z-grade black and white […]

May, 23

Scared to Death ** (1947, Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Molly Lamont, Roland Varno, Nat Pendleton, Joyce Compton, Dorothy Christy) – Classic Movie Review 3,746

The intriguingly and amusingly eerie and exotic 1947 horror thriller film Scared to Death is the only colour film to star Bela Lugosi and is possibly the first film to be narrated by a corpse. Director […]

May, 23

Invisible Ghost ** (1941, Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire, Clarence Muse, Terry Walker, Betty Compson) – Classic Movie Review 3745

Out of the darkness comes the ear-piercing cry of a terrified girl, and the Phantom Killer has struck again. Only a terrified woman knows the secret of this ghostly murderer who leaves no clues but […]

May, 23

The Wind That Shakes the Barley **** (2006, Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 3744

The 69-year-old Ken Loach won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival’s top honour of the Palme d’Or for his impassioned, controversial Irish historical war drama, a tale of two fictional County Cork brothers fighting for Irish independence from the United […]

May, 23

Shout ** (1991, John Travolta, Jamie Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey, Gwyneth Paltrow, Glenn Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 3743

John Travolta stars as runaway Jack Cabe who is hired by a 1955 West Texas school for interned wayward delinquent boys as its rock-n-rolling new music teacher. Alas, despite a good cast, there is nothing that […]

May, 22

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