Derek Winnert

The Big Country **** (1958, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 2574

Producer-director William Wyler’s big 1958 epic Western stars Gregory Peck as wealthy retired New England sea captain James McKay, who arrives in the Old West on the range to marry his spoiled fiancée Patricia Terrill […]

Jun, 09 · in Reviews

Conquest of Space *** (1954, Eric Fleming, Walter Brooke, Mickey Shaughnessy, William Hopper, Ross Martin, William Redfield) – Classic Movie Review 2573

Director Byron Haskin’s painstaking and realistic 1954 documentary-style sci-fi film comes from the illustrious stable of fantasy producer George Pal. It motors on an interesting screenplay by James O’Hanlon, derived from Willy Ley’s 1949 classic The […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

Coogan’s Bluff **** (1968, Clint Eastwood, Lee J Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud) – Classic Movie Review 2,572

Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 cop thriller film Coogan’s Bluff stars Clint Eastwood as an Arizona deputy sheriff who travels to New York City to extradite a prisoner (Don Stroud), who escapes and is wanted for […]

Jun, 08

Ted Bundy [Bundy] ** (2002, Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 2571

Co-writer/director Matthew Bright’s chilling 2002 docu-drama biopic of the prolific and notorious serial sex killer whose horrific crimes shocked 1970s America is exploitative and graphically nasty. Michael Reilly Burke stars as Ted Bundy and Boti […]

Jun, 08

Freeway * (1996, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine) – Classic Movie Review 2570

Writer-director Matthew Bright’s exploitative, really nasty 1996 revenge thriller stars Reese Witherspoon as abused juvenile delinquent teenager Vanessa Lutz, who is travelling to her grandmother’s trailer park home on the run from a social worker. […]

Jun, 08

The Big Combo **** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 2,569

Joseph H Lewis’s classic 1955 B-movie film noir thriller The Big Combo is ultra-tough for its day. It pushed a few boundaries and got into censorship problems with its slant on a regulation tale about […]

Jun, 07

D.O.A. **** (1950, Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 2565

Director Rudolph Maté’s invigorating 1950 film noir crime thriller is a well-deserved long-term cult classic, and was remade in 1988 starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan as D.O.A. It starts off with dead on arrival […]

Jun, 07

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