Derek Winnert

The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03 · in Uncategorized

The Scarlet Empress ***** (1934, Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C Aubrey Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2,936

Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in Josef von Sternberg’s 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, a spectacular, visually thrilling historical romantic biopic. Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef […]

Oct, 03 · in Reviews

The Drowning Pool *** (1975, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Melanie Griffith, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Richard Jaeckel, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2,935

The 1975 mystery thriller film The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, reprising his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper in the sequel to his 1966 hit Harper [The Moving Target]. Director Stuart […]

Oct, 03

The Blood of Fu Manchu * (1968, Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Tsai Chin, Shirley Eaton, Howard Marion-Crawford, Götz George, Maria Rohm) – Classic Movie Review 2947

Director Jesús Franco’s crime thriller horror movie is the fifth and concluding chapter in Christopher Lee’s Fu Manchu cycle of movies. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford (as scientist Doctor Petrie) and Tsai Chin (as Fu’s daughter Lin […]

Oct, 03

The Castle of Fu Manchu * (1969, Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Howard Marion-Crawford, Tsai Chin, Günther Stoll, Maria Perschy) – Classic Movie Review 2946

Director Jesús Franco’s rather tedious and shoddily made 1969 fourth and penultimate Christopher Lee appearance as Asian super-villain Fu Manchu nevertheless has its brashly eye-catching moments. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford and Tsai Chin (as Lin […]

Oct, 03

The Face of Fu Manchu **** (1965, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Tsai Chin, Howard Marion-Crawford, James Robertson Justice, Walter Rilla, Joachim Fuchsburger, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 2945

Director Don Sharp’s brisk and entertaining 1965 British-West German crime thriller horror movie is the first and best of five Twenties period thrillers featuring Christopher Lee as Sax Rohmer’s dastardly super-villain character Fu Manchu, who surprisingly […]

Oct, 03

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu ** (1967, Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer, Howard Marion-Crawford, Wolfgang Kieling, Tony Ferrer, Tsai Chin, Bert Kwouk) – Classic Movie Review 2944

Writer-producer Harry Alan Towers’s 1967 horror movie is number three in the Fu Manchu series of five films, with Christopher Lee continuing his welcome impersonation of the wicked oriental one – The Most Evil Man […]

Oct, 03

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