Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Showdown ** (1963, Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 9697

Director R G Springsteen’s dully conventional, but action-packed and busily plotted Audie Murphy 1963 Western film Showdown comes from towards the end of the war hero star’s considerable movie career. Ric Hardman [Bronson Howitzer]’s screenplay […]

May, 01 · in Uncategorized

Showdown at Abilene ** (1956, Jock Mahoney, Lyle Bettger, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9696

The 1956 Western film Showdown at Abilene provides a fair level of entertainment, in which presumed dead Civil War soldier Jim Trask (Jock Mahoney) comes home to Abilene, Kansas, where he had been sheriff, to […]

May, 01 · in Reviews

Gunfight in Abilene ** (1967, Bobby Darin, Emily Banks, Leslie Nielsen, Don Galloway, Michael Sarrazin) – Classic Movie Review 9695

The 1967 Western film Gunfight in Abilene stars Bobby Darin in a non-singing role as brave Rebel soldier Cal Wayne, and features Michael Sarrazin in his film début as a guileless tenderfoot.  Director William Hale’s […]

May, 01

Coneheads * (1993, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley, David Spade) – Classic Movie Review 9694

Director Steve Barron’s 1993 sci-fi spoof Coneheads stars an impressive line-up in Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Laraine Newman, Phil Hartman, Dave Thomas, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Adam Sandler, Sinbad, Jan […]

Apr, 30

Cone of Silence [Trouble in the Sky] ** (1960, Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, George Sanders, Elizabeth Seal, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 9693

Peter Cushing stars away from his usual horror territory as a pompous pilot called Captain Judd in director Charles Frend’s intriguing if slackly paced 1960 mystery drama Cone of Silence [Trouble in the Sky], based […]

Apr, 30

A Monkey in Winter [Un singe en hiver] [It’s Hot in Hell] *** (1962, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Gabrielle Dorziat) – Classic Movie Review 9692

Jean Gabin plays Albert Quentin, an elderly boozer trying to forget an old flame, and Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Gabriel Fouquet, a young drunkard visiting his young daughter, who hit the bottle together in a Normandy […]

Apr, 30

Mister 880 **** (1950, Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 9691

Burt Lancaster stars as recently appointed FBI agent Steve Buchanan who teams with attractive UN secretary–translator Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire) to investigate aged New Yorker William ‘Skipper’ Miller, aka fake-dollar-bill fraudster Mister 880 (Edmund Gwenn), […]

Apr, 30

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