Derek Winnert

The Gypsy Moths ** (1969, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, William Windom, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9713

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1969 drama The Gypsy Moths is a dull and dour action adventure-cum-soap opera about three skydivers, Mike Rettig, Joe Browdy and Malcolm Webson (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson), who arrive in […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

The Guns of Fort Petticoat *** (1957, Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson) – Classic Movie Review 9712

Director George Marshall’s 1957 Western film The Guns of Fort Petticoat stars Audie Murphy as a Texan Union Army deserter, Lieutenant Frank Hewitt, who trains a band of homesteader wives at an old fort to defend […]

May, 04 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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