Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air *** (1942, Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Dame May Whitty, George Barbier, Richard Haydn, Reginald Denny) – Classic Movie Review 12,108

Director William A Wellman’s 1942 20th Century Fox Technicolor film Thunder Birds was made as propaganda to boost American civilian morale, and stars Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Dame May Whitty, George […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Thunderbirds ** (1952, John Derek, John Barrymore Jr, Mona Freeman, Ward Bond, Gene Evans, Eileen Christy, Barton MacLane, Wally Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 12,107

Producer-director John H Auer’s 1952 Republic Pictures war film Thunderbirds stars John Derek, John Barrymore Jr, Mona Freeman, Ward Bond, Gene Evans, Eileen Christy, Barton MacLane, Wally Cassell. Thunderbirds is unexceptional World War Two airborne […]

May, 08 · in Reviews

Backfire! ** (1962, Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall, Oliver Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 12,106

Director Paul Almond’s 1962 British black and white Merton Park second feature thriller film Backfire! stars Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall and Oliver Johnston. It is a cheap and humble but reasonably satisfactory Edgar Wallace mystery […]

May, 07

Backfire *** (1987, Karen Allen, Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Bernie Casey, Dean Paul Martin, Dinah Manhoff) – Classic Movie Review 12,105

Director Gilbert Cates’s 1987 murderous love triangle mystery-thriller film Backfire stars Karen Allen, Keith Carradine and Jeff Fahey, along with Bernie Casey, Dean Paul Martin and Dinah Manhoff. Fahey plays a much troubled Vietnam war veteran called […]

May, 07

Drifters **** (1929, director John Grierson) – Classic Movie Review 12,104

‘The herring fishing has changed. It was once an idyll of brown sails and village harbours – its story now is an epic of steam and steel.’ Writer-producer-director John Grierson’s 1929 silent film Drifters for […]

May, 07

The Drifter *** (1988, Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Miles O’Keeffe, Al Shannon, Anna Garduno, Loren Haynes, Larry Brand) – Classic Movie Review 12,103

The 1988 Roger Corman-produced film The Drifter is a tense, eerie, credible thriller about unattached fashion designer Julia Robbins (Kim Delaney) who gives a hitchhiker named Trey (Miles O’Keeffe) a lift, and lives to regret […]

May, 07

Driftwood * (1997, James Spader, Anne Brochet) – Classic Movie Review 12,102

James Spader drifts out of luck with the arty-farty 1997 Misery clone thriller film Driftwood.  Director Ronan O’Leary’s 1997 thriller Driftwood is an arty-farty Misery clone, with an amnesiac man (James Spader) washed up on […]

May, 06

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