Derek Winnert

Labyrinth **** (1986, David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud) – Classic Movie Review 3256

‘Jim Henson, George Lucas and David Bowie take you into a dazzling world of fantasy and adventure.’ David Bowie gives a memorable turn as the lead in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. Behind the scenes, […]

Jan, 11 · in Reviews

Berserk ** (1967, Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Keen, Judy Geeson, Philip Madoc, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 3255

Joan Crawford came to England in 1967 f­­or her penultimate movie Berserk to play Monica Rivers, the owner and ringmaster of a struggling circus enjoying the fame and renewed success arising from a series of […]

Jan, 09 · in Reviews

Strange Cargo *** (1940, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 3,254

‘As for going places with you, I still pick my own gutters.’ MGM’s strange but stirring 1940 adventure movie Strange Cargo sees Clark Gable and Joan Crawford pairing up for the eighth time. Producer-director Frank […]

Jan, 09

The Story of GI Joe **** (1945, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele) – Classic Movie Review 3253

Burgess Meredith lands a great role as real-life American newsman Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard War Correspondent, in this riveting autobiographical war picture based on Pyle’s wartime memoirs Brave Men and Here Is Your War. Director William A […]

Jan, 09

The Story of Esther Costello *** (1957, Joan Crawford, Heather Sears, Rossano Brazzi, Ron Randell, Lee Patterson, Fay Compton, John Loder, Denis O’Dea, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 3,252

Joan Crawford stars as a wealthy woman who aids a deaf-blind teen orphan (Heather Sears) from her Irish village, in the high-anguish 1957 British drama film The Story of Esther Costello. Director David Miller’s awkward but very […]

Jan, 09

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

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

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