Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

San Antonio ** (1945, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith) – Classic Movie Review 12,532

Warner Bros’ 1945 Technicolor Western film San Antonio was Errol Flynn’s most popular movie of the mid 1940s. Director David Butler said: ‘That was a fine, well done picture. We had a lot of fun […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

The Salzburg Connection ** (1972, Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 12,531

The likeable enough 1972 thriller film The Salzburg Connection stars Barry Newman as an American attorney vacationing in scenic Salzburg, Austria, where he gets involved with the world’s secret agents who are after a box […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

The Forger [Der Passfälscher] ***½ (2022, Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler) – Classic Movie Review 12,530

Louis Hofmann stars as Cioma Schönhaus, a 21-year-old German graphic artist who lives illegally as a Jew in hiding in Berlin during World War Two, in the tense and compelling 2022 real-life wartime thriller The […]

Jun, 04

Hypnotic (2023, Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, J D Pardo, Jeff Fahey, Jackie Earle Haley, William Fichtner) – Classic Movie Review 12,529

Ben Affleck sleep-walks through co-writer/ director Robert Rodriguez’s lame and soporific 2023 sci-fi action mystery thriller film Hypnotic. Like a man hypnotised, a very tired and weary-looking Ben Affleck sleep-walks through co-writer/ director Robert Rodriguez’s […]

Jun, 03

Eagle in a Cage ** (1972, Kenneth Haigh, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 12,528

Director Fielder Cook’s painstaking 1972 historical drama film Eagle in a Cage stars Kenneth Haigh, who commands the screen as Napoleon Bonaparte, in this decently told, quite compelling tale of his exile and imprisonment on […]

Jun, 02

The Age of Innocence ** (1934, Irene Dunne, John Boles, Lionel Atwill, Laura Hope Crews, Helen Westley, Julie Haydon) – Classic Movie Review 12,527

RKO’s 1934 film The Age of Innocence is an intriguing but rather unpersuasive Victorian romantic melodrama taken from Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer prize-winning classic 1920 novel, remade by Martin Scorsese in 1993. Director Philip Moeller’s 1934 […]

Jun, 02

The Snow Creature (1954, Paul Langton, Leslie Denison, William Phipps, Teru Shimada) – Classic Movie Review 12,526

W Lee Wilder’s entertainingly bad 1954 low budget monster movie The Snow Creature is made by his production company, and written by his son Myles Wilder. Producer/ director W Lee Wilder’s 1954 low budget American […]

Jun, 01

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