Derek Winnert

This Is England ***** (2006, Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Jack O’Connell, Joseph Gilgun, Kieran Hardcastle, Andrew Shim) – Classic Movie Review 3724

This Is England is, arguably, writer-director Shane Meadows’s chillingly realistic 2006 masterpiece. It features an astounding performance by Thomas Turgoose (aged 14) as Shaun, a 12-year-old English boy who becomes friends with bitter, racist, psychotic Combo (Stephen Graham) and a […]

May, 20 · in Uncategorized

20 Million Miles to Earth *** (1957, William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry) – Classic Movie Review 3723

A Ray Harryhausen special-effects monster of notable beastliness is the main reason to watch director Nathan Juran’s creaky old 1957 monster movie. William Hopper stars as spaceman Colonel Robert Calder, whose debut Venus-probe spacecraft that […]

May, 19 · in Uncategorized

Mysterious Island *** (1961, Michael Craig, Herbert Lom, Joan Greenwood, Gary Merrill, Michael Callan, Percy Herbert, Beth Rogan) – Classic Movie Review 3722

Director Cy Endfield’s 1961 British adventure movie is produced by Charles H Schneer. Michael Craig and Michael Callan star as embattled American Civil War soldiers, officers Captain Cyrus Harding (Craig) and Herbert Brown (Callan), who […]

May, 19

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver *** (1960, Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn) – Classic Movie Review 3721

Kerwin Mathews makes a dashing, handsome but rather bland hero as Lemuel Gulliver in co-writer/director Jack Sher’s swift 1960 run-through of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, with the emphasis on the familiar Brobdingnagian […]

May, 19

Them! **** (1954, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Edmund Gwenn, Onslow Stevens, Fess Parker, William Schallert, Dub Taylor, Leonard Nimoy) – Classic Movie Review 3720

Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]

May, 19

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad **** (1958, Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher, Richard Eyer) – Classic Movie Review 3719

Director Nathan Juran’s 1958 Arabian Nights fantasy adventure stars Kerwin Mathews as Sinbad, who, in the story by Ray Harryhausen, is searching for the cure that will return his love Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) back […]

May, 19

Sinbad the Sailor *** (1947, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Walter Slezak, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, George Tobias, Jane Greer) – Classic Movie Review 3718

Douglas Fairbanks Jnr’s magically acrobatic performance as Sinbad in the kind of role his father Douglas Fairbanks Snr pioneered in silent movies is the chief delight of director Richard Wallace’s lavish Technicolorful 1947 RKO swashbuckling adventure […]

May, 19

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