Derek Winnert

The Panic in Needle Park **** (1971, Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin, Raul Julia, Gil Rogers, Joe Santos, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 3480

Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1971 searing downer of movie about the heroin addicts who frequent ‘Needle Park’ stars the up-coming Al Pacino in his second film, just before he hit it big with The Godfather. A downbeat but […]

Mar, 19 · in Reviews

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? **** (1952, Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari, Gigi Perreau) – Classic Movie Review 3479

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 comedy features an irresistible star turn by wily performer Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an old millionaire who tests the family of a woman, Harriet Blasidell (Lynn Bari), he once loved […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

Risen *** (2016, Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis, María Botto, Stephen Hagan) – Movie Review

In an admirable, convincing star turn mixing easy, effortless athleticism with thoughtful intelligence, Joseph Fiennes is excellent as Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune who witnesses the agonising crucifixion of the Christ, Yeshua (Cliff Curtis). […]

Mar, 18

Sailor Beware *** (1952, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss, Leif Erickson, Skip Homeier, Vince Edwards, James Dean) – Classic Movie Review 3478

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are up to their old tricks, this time in navy larks as sailors in a submarine, in director Hal Walker’s 1952 remake of a 1942 Dorothy Lamour-William Holden musical The […]

Mar, 18

The Steel Helmet **** (1951, Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 3477

Gene Evans stars as Sergeant Zack, with Robert Hutton as Private Bronte, Steve Brodie as Lieutenant Driscoll and James Edwards as Corporal Thompson, in writer-director Samuel Fuller’s riveting Korean War action drama. It is notable as the first Korean War […]

Mar, 15

Fixed Bayonets! **** (1951, Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 3476

Cult favourite writer-director Samuel Fuller delivers a tough, rough and robust Korean War action thriller, starting with his intelligent, thoughtful screenplay telling the story of a separated platoon of weary American infantrymen. It is set in 1950 during […]

Mar, 15

A Challenge for Robin Hood *** (1967, Barrie Ingham, James Hayter, Leon Greene) – Classic Movie Review 3475

Director C Pennington Richards’s lively but undistinguished 1967 British version of the Sherwood Forest legend was made for Hammer Films, which had already filmed Sword of Sherwood Forest in 1960 with a different cast. This […]

Mar, 14

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