Derek Winnert

Find the Lady * (1956, Donald Houston, Beverley Brooks, Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, Edwin Richfield) – Classic Movie Review 9751

Director Charles Saunders’s 1956 tepid, short British B-movie comedy thriller Find the Lady is based on the story by Paul Erickson and Dermot Palmer about a gang of bank robbers (Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, and […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

Meteor ** (1979, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 9750

Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]

May, 11 · in Reviews

Avalanche [Escape from Alaska] * (1999, Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R Lee Ermey, C Thomas Howell) – Classic Movie Review 9749

Director Steve Kroschel’s 1999 Avalanche is a feeble, cheap-looking action thriller, with Thomas Ian Griffith as a chopper pilot working with an environmentalist couple (C Thomas Howell, Caroleen Feeney) in Alaska, tagging foxes for the […]

May, 11

Avalanche * (1978, Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 9748

Director Corey Allen’s 1978 action drama Avalanche is a minor, just passable disaster movie, unexpectedly from producer Roger Corman, made and distributed by New World Pictures, with a six million-ton avalanche spelling doom for trippers at […]

May, 11

Hidden City *** (1987, Charles Dance, Cassie Stuart, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 9747

Smoothie Charles Dance stars in Stephen Poliakoff’s first cinema film as writer-director, the 1987 British mystery thriller Hidden City, which is set round a south London building used as an interrogation centre in World War […]

May, 11

Goodbye Again *** (1961, Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis) – Classic Movie Review 9,746

The 1961 romantic drama film Goodbye Again stars Ingrid Bergman as middle-aged French interior designer Paula, who trades in suave, wealthy Roger (Yves Montand) for boyish lawyer Philip (Anthony Perkins). Director Anatole Litvak’s 1961 romantic […]

May, 10

The Good Father *** (1985, Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 9745

Director Mike Newell’s 1985 British drama The Good Father stars Anthony Hopkins on best barnstorming form as Bill Hooper, an irate father, cast out of his house and paying alimony, who finds his son is […]

May, 10

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