Derek Winnert

Strait-Jacket *** (1964, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater) – Classic Movie Review 3,251

‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars as an axe-wielding killer in the full-blooded, frantic 1964 horror movie shocker Strait-Jacket. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up […]

Jan, 08 · in Reviews

Trog * (1970, Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 3250

Director Freddie Francis’s sensationally forlorn and risible 1970 British effort Trog stars the great Joan Crawford in what proved to be her unhappy last movie, made at the age of 65, though she lived on […]

Jan, 08 · in Reviews

Imitation of Life **** (1959, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert Alda, Mahalia Jackson, Troy Donahue, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 3249

Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]

Jan, 08

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? **** (1957, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Mickey Hargitay, Groucho Marx) – Classic Film Review 3248

Writer-producer-director Frank Tashlin follows up his 1956 success The Girl Can’t Help It that made a movie star of Jayne Mansfield by making a film of her concurrent stage success Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in 1957 with Mansfield and […]

Jan, 08

The Trip to Bountiful **** (1985, Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 3247

Geraldine Page is magnificent in director Peter Masterson’s 1985 guaranteed four-hankie weepie, based on the Fifties Horton Foote play produced on American TV and on Broadway (with Lillian Gish). Three cheers for the redoubtable Page who, […]

Jan, 07

Ocean’s Thirteen **** (2007, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Al Pacino, Bernie Mac, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 3246

It’s lucky 13 when George Clooney returns again as Danny Ocean and rounds up his boys Brad Pitt’s Rusty Ryan, Matt Damon’s Linus Caldwell and co for a third heist, after Al Pacino’s casino owner Willy […]

Jan, 07

Creed ***½ (2015, Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Tony Bellew, Phylicia Rashad, Graham McTavish) – Movie Review

Michael B Jordan stars as Adonis Johnson, son of former heavyweight champion boxer Apollo Creed, who tracks down former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) at his Italian restaurant, Adrian’s, named in honour of […]

Jan, 07

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