Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

Where No Vultures Fly [Ivory Hunter] *** (1951, Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender) – Classic Movie Review 9798

Anthony Steel and Dinah Sheridan star effectively as the East African national park game warden and his wife, in the sharp and swift Ealing Studios realist-style 1951 jungle adventure film Where No Vultures Fly. Director […]

May, 21 · in Reviews

A Twist of Sand ** (1968, Richard Johnson, Honor Blackman, Roy Dotrice, Peter Vaughan, Jeremy Kemp, Clifford Evans) – Classic Movie Review 9797

Despite some decent action, director Don Chaffey’s 1968 film A Twist of Sand is a routine adventure with not too many twists and some rather dull acting from very decent British actors saddled with caricature […]

May, 21

The Philadelphia Experiment **** (1984, Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas) – Classic Movie Review 9796

Director Stewart Raffill’s 1984 sci-fi film The Philadelphia Experiment is an excellent supernatural thriller, with Michael Paré and Bobby Di Cicco as US sailors on a Navy destroyer escort ship in World War Two who […]

May, 20

Phase IV *** (1974, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, Michael Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 9795

‘Adapt or die.’ The 1973 Phase IV is a fascinating sci-fi thriller from Saul Bass – making his first and only feature film – the man who directed the best movie credit sequences in the […]

May, 20

The Pharmacist **** (1933, W C Fields, Marjorie Kane, Elise Cavanna, Grady Sutton, Lorena Carr) – Classic Movie Review 9794

The Pharmacist is a quirky, funny 1933 American pre-Code 20-minute comedy film directed by Arthur Ripley and starring W C Fields as horribly henpecked pharmacist Mr Dilweg, who tries to deal with his comedically over-demanding […]

May, 20

The Barber Shop **** (1933, W C Fields, Elise Cavanna, Harry Watson, Dagmar Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 9793

Funny, busy and inventive W C Fields short, with the star on hilarious form as the barber Cornelius O’Hare, with a typically grouchy wife (Elise Cavanna) and an unattainable object of lust (Dagmar Oakland). ‘Are […]

May, 20

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