Derek Winnert

La Scorta [The Escort] **** (1993, Carlo Cecchi, Enrico Lo Verso, Claudio Amendola, Tony Sperandeo, Ricky Memphis) – Classic Movie Review 3,208

Italian director Ricky Tognazzi’s taut, exciting 1993 documentary-style 1993 Italian crime thriller film La Scorta [The Escort] is set in Sicily, where the men who protect special investigators find themselves sharing their charges’ constant fear of death. […]

Jan, 01 · in Reviews

White Savage *** (1943, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 3207

The 1943 Technicolor escapist fantasy adventure film White Savage reunites Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu in a campy, colourful exotic tale. It is kind of the Raiders of the Lost Ark of its day. […]

Jan, 01 · in Reviews

The Sword of Ali Baba ** (1965, Peter Mann, Jocelyn Lane, Frank McGrath, Gavin MacLeod, Frank Puglia, Peter Whitney) – Classic Movie Review 3206

‘Thrill With Ali Baba and His Forty Thieves’ Universal Pictures studio remakes its 1944 hit Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, reusing much of its footage. It’s a low-budget, old-style adventure without the un-self-conscious, self-confident […]

Dec, 31

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves *** (1944, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Kurt Katch, Frank Puglia, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 3205

Universal Pictures studio’s lavish, Technicolor-full exotic wartime fairy tale is daft but pacey and jolly, and very popular in its day thanks to the allure of the Jon Hall-Maria Montez duo. It was meant to […]

Dec, 31

Cobra Woman **** (1944, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jnr, Edgar Barrier) – Classic Movie Review 3204

‘TOLLEA! TEMPTRESS OF TERROR’ Director Robert Siodmak’s uber-colourful 1944 South Seas adventure Cobra Woman is revered as a legendary camp classic. Hollywood Babylon book author Kenneth Anger called it his favourite film. Cobra Woman re-teams Maria […]

Dec, 31

Arabian Nights *** (1942, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, John Qualen, Leif Erickson, Turhan Bey, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3203

Director John Rawlins’s 1942 movie is delightful, expertly crafted, fast-moving escapist adventure hokum designed to cheer up World War Two wartime audiences – and it can still cheer today! A treat in Technicolor, it was nominated […]

Dec, 31

Arabian Nights [Il fiore delle mille e una notte] **** (1974, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini) – Classic Movie Review 3202

Co-writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 movie is the third and finest of his Trilogy of Life movies of mediaeval stories after The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972), in which tales from Thousand and […]

Dec, 31

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