Derek Winnert

Underworld USA **** (1961, Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Larry Gates, Robert Emhardt, Paul Dubov, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 3656

‘The Facts… The Faces… The Film That Cracks America’s Organized Crime Syndicate Wide Open!’ Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s tough, hard-hitting 1961 neo-noir revenge crime drama thriller Underworld USA is lifted way out of the rut by […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

The Adventures of Quentin Durward **** (1955, Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, Ernest Thesiger, Alec Clunes, Marius Goring, Wilfrid Hyde White, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3655

Director Richard Thorpe 1955 British movie is a spirited, pacy, good-looking 15th-century action caper, in which Robert Taylor swashes a spirited buckle as Sir Walter Scott’s noble hero, Scottish knight Quentin Durward. Sent to France to […]

May, 03 · in Reviews

Ivanhoe **** (1952, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3654

Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]

May, 03

Knights of the Round Table **** (1953, Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Baker, Anne Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 3653

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1953 British Arthurian adventure once again examines the endlessly fascinating Camelot love triangle and the battling Knights of the Round Table. MGM sends over its glamorous stars Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Mel Ferrer. King […]

May, 03

Lancelot of the Lake [Lancelot du Lac] ***** (1974, Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan) – Classic Movie Review 3652

Masterly writer-director Robert Bresson lets his spare shooting style loose on the Arthurian legend in this mesmerising 1974 French film of great formal beauty, spotlighting the characters’ cruelty, pride and aching need for human affection. […]

May, 03

Lancelot and Guinevere [Sword of Lancelot] ** (1963, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Adrienne Corri, Mark Dignam) – Classic Movie Review 3651

Conscientious  co-writer/co-producer/director Cornel Wilde also leads the cast as Lancelot in a solid performance in an enjoyable but uninspired 1962 film version of the knights of the Round Table Arthurian legend. It comes ten years after Richard […]

May, 03

Siege of the Saxons ** (1963, Ronald Lewis, Janette Scott, Ronald Howard, Mark Dignam, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3650

Set in Arthurian times but with medieval England sets and style, director Nathan Juran’s low-budget 1963 British historical adventure is endearingly feeble, murky, cheap-looking. It extensively reuses footage, costumes and props from the 1954 Alan Ladd […]

May, 03

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