Derek Winnert

The Crowded Sky ** (1960, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, John Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Troy Donahue) – Classic Movie Review 10,574

‘The most fascinating people the gods of chance ever swept up into high adventure!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s efficient 1960 melodrama The Crowded Sky is a busy all-star disaster movie, which is quite fun as hokum. […]

Nov, 21 · in Reviews

The Big Circus *** (1959, Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Gilbert Roland, David Nelson, Adele Mara, Steve Allen) – Classic Movie Review 10,573

The 1959 American drama film The Big Circus stars Victor Mature as a circus owner battling financial trouble and a murderous saboteur. The colourful cast includes Vincent Price as the ringmaster, Peter Lorre as the clown, […]

Nov, 21 · in Reviews

Son of a Gunfighter * (1965, Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook, Fernando Rey, María Granada) – Classic Movie Review 10,572

Director Paul Landres’s game but pedestrian 1966 Sixties Paella Western film Son of a Gunfighter [El Hijo del Pistolero] stars Russ Tamblyn as Johnny Ketchum, the son of notorious gunfighter James ‘Ace’ Ketchum. It is […]

Nov, 20

Home Before Dark *** (1958, Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,571

Rhonda Fleming called Mervyn LeRoy’s 1958 drama film Home Before Dark her favourite role, saying: ‘It was a marvellous stretch’. Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy and Efrem Zimbalist Jr also star. It is written by Eileen […]

Nov, 20

Bullwhip ** (1958, Guy Madison, Rhonda Fleming, James Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 10,570

Director Harmon Jones’s 1958 Western film Bullwhip is a traditional Fifties-style comedic look at life on the range, with tepid handling, fumbling the admittedly tricky juggling act between action, humour and romance. To escape a […]

Nov, 20

The Invisible Boy *** (1957, Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster) – Classic Movie Review 10,569

‘Can science go too far? Can it create life??’ Good question, MGM. In a story by Edmund Cooper, computer boffin Dr Tom Merrinoe (Philip Abbott)’s 10-year-old son Timmie (Richard Eyer) repairs and befriends Forbidden Planet’s […]

Nov, 20

Soft Top Hard Shoulder *** (1992, Peter Capaldi, Elaine Collins, Jeremy Northam, Richard Wilson, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Catherine Russell, Phyllis Logan) *** Classic Movie Review 10,568

Director Stefan Schwartz’s 1992 comedy Soft Top Hard Shoulder is good middle-brow fun, in the Local Hero style, made with an eagle eye for laughs and arresting images. Peter Capaldi has done himself an enormous […]

Nov, 20

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