Derek Winnert

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Guns of Diablo ** (1964, Charles Bronson, Susan Oliver, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 9711

Director Boris Sagal’s 1964 Guns of Diablo is a short, simple theatrical feature carved out from a two-part episode of the one-season TV Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963-64). Guns of Diablo is […]

May, 04 · in Uncategorized

The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] *** (1962, Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Ricardo Valle) – Classic Movie Review 9710

Writer-director Jesús Franco’s 1962 Spanish horror movie The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] stars Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff. He is a mad doctor who kidnaps beautiful women to operate on them and […]

May, 03 · in Uncategorized

Blackmailed ** (1951, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 9707

A good yarn based on Elizabeth Myers’s novel Mrs Christopher becomes a rather artificial and tame British thriller in 1951 as Blackmailed, but with a good, hard-working cast headed by Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling, […]

May, 03

The Body Stealers * (1969, George Sanders, Maurice Evans, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 9709

Director Gerry Levy’s odd, promising but unsatisfactory little 1969 British sci-fi picture The Body Stealers [Thin Air] has a story about British armed forces parachutists vanishing apparently into thin air (or red mist in this […]

May, 03

The Horrible Dr Hichcock [L’orribile segreto del Dr Hichcock] **** (1962, Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, Silvano Tranquilli) – Classic Movie Review 9708

Robert Flemyng, OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) is probably best known today for his appearance in director Riccardo Freda’s much admired, splendidly lurid cult Italian Gothic horror movie The Horrible Dr […]

May, 03

The Black Whip ** (1956, Hugh Marlowe, Coleen Gray, Adele Mara, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 9706

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1956 black and white Western film The Black Whip stars Hugh Marlowe as former Confederate officer Lorn Crawford, who, along with his brother Dewey Crawford (Richard Gilden), rescues four dance hall […]

May, 03

A Black Veil for Lisa [La morte non ha sesso] *** (1968, John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, Robert Hoffmann) – Classic Movie Review 9705

Director Massimo Dallamano’s interesting, engaging and above routine 1969 international Euro mystery thriller A Black Veil for Lisa [La Morte Non Ha Sesso] finds an unexpected star in John Mills, who manfully leads this dark […]

May, 03

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