Derek Winnert

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes **** (1970, Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl, Clive Revill, Geneviève Page) – Classic Movie Review 2487

Billy Wilder is on great form in his revisionist 1970 British-made tale of the private life of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sleuth, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely are […]

May, 16 · in Reviews

The Brain Eaters ** (1958, Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Joanna Lee, Jack Hill) – Classic Movie Review 2,486

Hairy alien parasites from the centre of the Earth attach themselves to the backs of the bodies of citizens in a small Illinois town to take over their minds, in the 1958 tingler film The Brain […]

May, 15 · in Reviews

It Conquered the World ** (1956, Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef ) – Classic Movie Review 2485

Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1956 monster movie stars Peter Graves as a well-meaning scientist called Dr Paul Nelson. Lee Van Cleef plays Nelson’s old friend and fellow scientist, the disgruntled Tom Anderson, who cultivates the friendship of […]

May, 15

The She-Creature ** (1956, Marla English, Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Ron Randell) – Classic Movie Review 2484

Director Edward L Cahn’s black-and-white 1956 low-budget horror monster movie The She-Creature stars Marla English and Tom Conway in the first of two films he directed with these stars, followed by Voodoo Woman in 1957. […]

May, 15

Voodoo Woman ** (1957, Tom Conway, Marla English, Mike Connors, Lance Fuller, Mary Ellen Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 2483

Somewhere in the jungle, a mad scientist, Dr Roland Gerard (an aged and unengaged Tom Conway), is determined to create the perfect human being. Using a combination of science and black voodoo, he creates a […]

May, 14

Voodoo Man ** (1944, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 2482

‘HIS LUST FOR VOODOOISM SPELLS D-O-O-M!’ Bela Lugosi stars as voodoo-practising Dr Richard Marlowe, who tries to save his zombie wife from a 20-year-long trance by abducting other ladies and reducing them to a catatonic […]

May, 14

Von Ryan’s Express **** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, Brad Dexter, John Leyton, Raffaella Carrà) – Classic Movie Review 2,481

Allied prisoners of war make a daring escape by hijacking their freight train and fleeing through German-occupied Italy to Switzerland, in the 1965 World War Two adventure film Von Ryan’s Express, starring Frank Sinatra. Director […]

May, 14

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