Derek Winnert

The Curse of the Cat People **** (1944, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter) – Classic Movie Review 2762

Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

War of the Colossal Beast ** (1958, Duncan Dean Parkin, Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz) – Classic Movie Review 2760

In 1958 director Bert I Gordon delivers a quite lively black-and-white science fiction sequel to his The Amazing Colossal Man (1957). It continues that movie’s storyline, but it was not marketed as a sequel and features […]

Jul, 31 · in Reviews

The Cyclops *** (1957, James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr, Tom Drake, Duncan Dean Parkin) – Classic Movie Review 2761

Director Bert I Gordon’s 1957 sci-fi monster movie stars Lon Chaney Jnr as boozy, cantankerous, wealthy old Martin ‘Marty’ Melville, who nervously accompanies eager Susan Winter (Gloria Talbott) on an expedition out to a remote area of […]

Jul, 31

The Incredible Shrinking Man ***** (1957, Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 2759

Jack Arnold’s famous 1957 sci-fi movie is a hugely popular, much loved cult classic, based on the novel The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson, with a screenplay by him and Richard Alan Simmons. Grant Williams stars […]

Jul, 31

Cat Girl *** (1957, Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 2758

Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1957 Anglo-American horror movie stars Barbara Shelley, who is perfectly cast in this eerie chiller as Leonora Brandt, a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she has inherited […]

Jul, 30

The Amazing Colossal Man *** (1957, Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, James Seay, Larry Thor, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 2757

Producer/co-writer/director Bert I Gordon’s 1957 sci-fi monster movie about an atomic explosion that starts an American army officer growing terrifyingly into a giant is endearing and quite lively. Glenn Langan stars as Lieutenant Colonel Glenn […]

Jul, 30

To Sir, with Love *** (1967, Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Lulu, Patricia Routledge, Faith Brook) – Classic Movie Review 2756

Writer-director James Clavell’s 1967 British school drama provides an excellent role for American star Sidney Poitier, though admittedly he turns up unexpectedly in a London inner-city school for hard knocks. There he teaches troublesome pupils Judy Geeson, Suzy […]

Jul, 30

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