Derek Winnert

Mister Moses * (1965, Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox, Raymond St Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 10,012

‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]

Jul, 07 · in Uncategorized

The Strange One *** (1957, Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, Peter Mark Richman, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 10,011

Director Jack Garfein’s 1957 black and white drama The Strange One is a powerful, up-front hothouse US Southern military academy saga, in which Ben Gazzara stars as cadet leader Jocko De Paris, who exercises a […]

Jul, 07 · in Uncategorized

Tom Sawyer *** (1930, Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searle) – Classic Movie Review 10,010

Director John Cromwell’s 1930 early sound black and white comedy-drama film Tom Sawyer is the first sound version of the 1876 Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is pleasing though very […]

Jul, 07

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Huckleberry Finn] *** (1960, Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore) – Classic Movie Review 10,009

MGM toast the 75th anniversary of the American publication of Mark Twain’s 1884 classic book with Michael Curtiz’s nimble 1960 film version The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was first published […]

Jul, 06

Huckleberry Finn ** (1931, Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl) – Classic Movie Review 10,008

Director Norman Taurog’s 1931 family comedy Huckleberry Finn [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] is Paramount’s pleasing, now faded second version of the Mark Twain classic (after a 1919 silent with Lewis Sargent as Huckleberry Finn), […]

Jul, 06

Howling: New Moon Rising [Howling VII] (1995, John Ramsden, Ernest Kester, Clive Turner) – Classic Movie Review 10,007

There’s no love for the 1995 seventh installment of the werewolf saga, Howling: New Moon Rising. Werewolves are back on the prowl when gruesome, werewolf-like murders occur in a California small town after a motorbike-riding […]

Jul, 06

Howling II: Stirba – Werewolf Bitch ** (1985, Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Sybil Danning, Marsha Hunt, Ferdy Mayne) – Classic Movie Review 10,006

‘And upon her forehead was written Behold I am the great mother of harlots and all abominations of the Earth.’ Christopher Lee stars in director Philippe Mora’s 1985 cult horror thriller sequel Howling II: Stirba […]

Jul, 06

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