Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Where Does It Hurt? * (1972, Peter Sellers, Jo Ann Pflug, Rick Lenz, Harold Gould, Pat Morita) – Classic Movie Review 9805 Classic Movie Review 9805

Director Rod Amateau’s largely pointless and unfunny poor-taste 1972 black farce Where Does It Hurt? concentrates on smutty jokes, nasty caricatures, offensive stereotypes and unsubtle innuendos, and wastes Peter Sellers and the other talented actors […]

May, 22 · in Reviews

Man on a String *** (1960, Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst) – Classic Movie Review 9804

Director André De Toth’s 1960 Man on a String [Confessions of a Counterspy] stars Ernest Borgnine in a Hollywood-ised biography of Russian double agent/ counterspy Boris Morros.  Borgnine plays him as Boris Mitrov, a character loosely […]

May, 22 · in Reviews

A Man on the Beach ** (1956, Donald Wolfit, Michael Medwin, Michael Ripper) – Classic Movie Review 9803

Director Joseph Losey’s 1956 A Man on the Beach is an intriguing and fair but slightly thin 29-minute Hammer Films crime thriller short feature about a reclusive blind doctor (Donald Wolfit) who encounters a career […]

May, 21

Dear Mr Prohack *** (1949, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Dirk Bogarde Sheila Sim, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9802

Director Thornton Freeland’s 1949 British comedy Dear Mr Prohack features Cecil Parker recreating his stage role as capable, frugal government treasury official Mr Arthur Prohack, who goes berserk and becomes a spendthrift when he comes […]

May, 21

When the Legends Die **** (1972, Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest, Luana Anders) – Classic Movie Review 9,801

A remarkable, outstanding performance by Richard Widmark heads producer-director Stuart Millar’s elegant, attractively low-key, laid-back 1972 contemporary Western film When the Legends Die. Robert Dozier’s screenplay is based on the novel by Hal Boland about […]

May, 21

When Time Ran Out… (1980, Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 9800

Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine head an extraordinary cast all at a loss in director James Goldstone’s rotten 1980 disaster movie When Time Ran Out… about a volcano erupting on a […]

May, 21

West of Zanzibar ** (1954, Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim, William Simons) – Classic Movie Review 9799

Director Harry Watt’s adequate but surprisingly humble and mundane 1954 Ealing Studios jungle adventure sequel West of Zanzibar is the follow-up to 1951’s more fetching Where No Vultures Fly. This time, Anthony Steel and Sheila […]

May, 21

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