Derek Winnert

The Crimson Pirate ***** (1952, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok) – Classic Movie Review 3471

Director Robert Siodmak’s 1952 classic stars a wonderfully agile Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, aka The Crimson Pirate, and his former circus acrobat partner Nick Cravat as Ojo. Lancaster and Cravat are awash in acrobatic […]

Mar, 12 · in Reviews

Run of the Arrow **** (1957, Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 3469

Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is an ambitious, tough, odd Western and it is one of the important works of cult film-maker Fuller, who said: ‘Rod Steiger overdoes it and I had to keep an […]

Mar, 12 · in Reviews

Kronos *** (1957, Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 3467

Director Kurt Neumann’s enjoyable 1957 sci-fi epic is a splendidly daft relic of the Fifties, in which a meteorite falls into the sea, spilling out a huge metal absorbing machine called Kronos (so called after […]

Mar, 11

The Street with No Name **** (1948, Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence, Ed Begley) – Classic Movie Review 3466

The 1948 film noir movie The Street with No Name is a follow-up to the hit 1945 The House on 92nd Street and stars Mark Stevens as FBI undercover agent Gene Cordell, who infiltrates a deadly […]

Mar, 11

House of Bamboo ***½ (1955, Robert Stack, Robert Ryan, Sessue Hayakawa, Brad Dexter, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Biff Elliot) – Classic Movie Review 3465

Cult writer-director Samuel Fuller’s good-looking 1955 film noir crime thriller about an American protection racket in Tokyo is commendably gritty, tough and edgy. The always reliable actor Robert Stack stars as the undercover agent, US […]

Mar, 11

Thunderhead – Son of Flicka *** (1945, Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Diana Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3464

Director Louis King’s cute 1945 sequel to 1943’s boy and horse story in the hit family feature My Friend Flicka happily sees much of the same cast returning from the original – Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster and […]

Mar, 11

My Friend Flicka *** (1943, Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Jeff Corey, Diana Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3463

Director Harold Schuster’s very pleasing 1943 family feature is based on the novel Mary O’Hara and features a lovely performance by Roddy ­McDowall, aged 15. The Technicolor shots of the Rockies farm lands are another huge […]

Mar, 11

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