Derek Winnert

The Mole People * (1956, John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 3,497

The creaky old black and white 1956 chiller film The Mole People stars John Agar as a scientist who starts an expedition to a lost underground city of albino inhabitants who have made slaves of […]

Mar, 24 · in Reviews

Mohawk * (1956, Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 3496

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1956 Western adventure is a soppy, risible, penny-pinching little movie with more accent on love tangles than on gun-slinging action. It pushes its luck by re-using extensive archive footage from the outstanding John […]

Mar, 24 · in Reviews

Saadia *** (1953, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Wanda Rotha) – Classic Movie Review 3495

Modern medicine meets its match in traditional Moroccan magic when the French doctor Henrik (Mel Ferrer) falls for a wild, strange local Arab girl called Saadia (Rita Gam) whom he saves from sickness and the […]

Mar, 23

Sign of the Pagan *** (1954, Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Rita Gam, Ludmilla Tchérina) – Classic Movie Review 3494

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1954 historical adventure epic stars Jack Palance, who cuts a memorable figure as Atilla the Hun, parading in breastplate armour and trying to obliterate Rome. But meanwhile Jeff Chandler is splendidly miscast […]

Mar, 23

Attila the Hun * (1954, Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni, Claude Laydu) – Classic Movie Review 3493

Anthony Quinn stars as an unconvincing Hun in director Pietro Francisci’s risibly fumbled 1954 Italian historical epic spectacular focusing on the infamous warrior Attila and his band of the barbarian Huns and called by the […]

Mar, 23

The Thief **** (1952, Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Rita Gam) – Classic Movie Review 3492

Co-writer/director Russell Rouse’s inventive and innovative 1952 movie is notable as one of the few films with synchronised sound to be made completely without any spoken dialogue. It was advertised as ‘ The Only Motion Picture […]

Mar, 23

Shock Corridor **** (1963, Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans) – Classic Movie Review 3491

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor is the heated, pulsating 1963 tale of an ambitious journalist newsman, Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), who sets off to investigate on the trail of a knife killing of a patient in […]

Mar, 22

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