Derek Winnert

One Million Years BC **** (1966, Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick) – Classic Movie Review 2436

Director Don Chaffey’s ambitious and spectacular 1966 prehistoric fantasy adventure One Million Years BC stars the remarkable Raquel Welch, famously looking sexy in perhaps the most iconic fur bikini of all time as Loana the […]

Apr, 29 · in Reviews

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth *** (1970, Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 2,435

The lovely, exotic-looking former Playboy 1968 Playmate of the Year Victoria Vetri stars as the scantily clad leading cave-lady Sanna in Hammer Films’ amusing 1970 film When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. Writer-director Val Guest’s daft […]

Apr, 29 · in Reviews

The Valley of Gwangi **** (1969, James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 2434

Director James O’Connolly’s 1969 monster movie The Valley of Gwangi is a big treat for all fans of dinosaur movies. It features a huge T-Rex called Gwangi, so named from a Native American word meaning lizard. […]

Apr, 28

International Velvet *** (1978, Tatum O’Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman, Peter Barkworth, Dinsdale Landen, Sarah Bullen, Richard Warwick, Jeffrey Byron) – Classic Movie Review 2433

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s belated, though still welcome 1978 children’s movie is the sequel to National Velvet (1944) and based on the original 1935 novel by Enid Bagnold. It is, in the words of the title […]

Apr, 28

The Naked Face *** (1984, Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 2432

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1984 thriller, made for producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s Canon Films, was his 14th and final movie as director. It is an adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s novel and stars Roger Moore […]

Apr, 27

The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431

Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]

Apr, 27

Better Late Than Never *** (1982, David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 2430

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 13th film from 1982 provided his penultimate movie, as his directorial career came to an all too early end. The outstanding cast of David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith and Lionel Jeffries […]

Apr, 26

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