Derek Winnert

I Shot Jesse James *** (1949, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley) – Classic Movie Review 3516

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1949 Western stars Preston Foster as old sheriff John Kelley, who helps a guilt-attacked Bob Ford (John Ireland), the man who shot his old best friend Jesse James (Reed Hadley) in order […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Patton ***** (1970, George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3515

Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]

Apr, 02 · in Reviews

Blood and Roses [Et Mourir de Plaisir] *** (1960, Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Annette Stroyberg) – Classic Movie Review 3514

Co-writer/director Roger Vadim’s atmospheric 1960 French romantic horror movie is based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s famous novella Carmilla. It tells the story of a young woman who is spurred to murder by her family’s vampirism, a […]

Apr, 02

Vampyr [Castle of Doom] ***** (1932, Julian West, Henriette Gérard, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel) – Classic Movie Review 3513

Danish co-writer/ producer/ director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s creepy and compelling first sound film from 1932 tells the haunting tale of a callow, supernatural-obsessed drifter called Allan Gray (Julian West), who arrives by night at a lonely secluded […]

Apr, 02

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer * (1998, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr, Brandy Norwood, Mekhi Phifer) – Classic Movie Review 3512

Director Danny Cannon’s grim 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is an even more humourless, even more mechanical slasher movie sequel to the iffy 1997 hit I Know What You […]

Apr, 02

Me, Natalie **** (1969, Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam, Elsa Lanchester, Salome Jens, Nancy Marchand, Al Pacino) – Classic Movie Review 3511

Young Patty Duke won the Golden Globe 1970 as Best Actress – Comedy or Musical for her performance in this independent film, though unfortunately it was a box-office flop. It was her second Golden Globe Award after winning Most Promising […]

Apr, 01

Eddie the Eagle ***½ (2016, Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Keith Allen, Jo Hartley, Tim McInnerny, Iris Berben, Christopher Walken) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman are a fun double act in this entertaining, thoroughly enjoyable feel-good movie about Michael ‘Eddie’ Edwards, the unlikely, courageous British ski-jumper and the reluctant, charismatic coach Bronson Peary who trains him for the 1988 Calgary […]

Apr, 01

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