Derek Winnert

The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] ** (1956, Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 9701

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] stars Van Johnson as a drunken escaped convict Donald Martin, convicted five years before for killing a man in self-defence in a barroom […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

Bottoms Up *** (1960, Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Martita Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 9700

Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

The Showdown *** (1950, Wild Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 9,699

There is plenty of wild West power in Republic Pictures’ 1950 Western film The Showdown, a sturdy story of a former sheriff (Wild Bill Elliott), hunting his brother’s killer. There is plenty of wild Western […]

May, 01

Showdown ** (1973, Rock Hudson, Dean Martin, Susan Clark – Classic Movie Review 9698

Director George Seaton’s 1973 film Showdown is a generic, standard Western with solid if uninspired performances from Rock Hudson and Dean Martin as Chuck Jarvis and Billy Massey, boyhood friends estranged by their chosen careers […]

May, 01

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

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

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

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