Derek Winnert

King Richard and the Crusaders * (1954, Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 9572

Director David Butler’s 1954 historical romantic adventure King Richard and the Crusaders is based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Talisman and stars Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders and Laurence Harvey. The film’s Crusaders […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

Village of the Giants (1965, Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9,571

Delinquent teens ingest a growth compound formula called Goo, created by a kid called Genius (Ron Howard), grow to amazing heights, and terrorise a small town, in the 1965 film Village of the Giants. ‘Teen-Agers […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

The Food of the Gods * (1976, Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino, Jon Cypher) – Classic Movie Review 9570

Writer-director Bert I Gordon’s 1976 low-budget exploitation quickie The Food of the Gods is a silly, gooey chiller, adapted from an H G Wells story, about gunge from the ground that creates monsters of insects […]

Mar, 28

Night of the Lepus * (1972, Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, Paul Fix, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 9569

‘How many eyes does horror have? How many times will terror strike?’ Director William F Claxton’s 1972 Night of the Lepus stars Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh as scientists Roy and Gerry Bennett, who inject […]

Mar, 28

Kingdom of the Spiders *** (1977, William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode) – Classic Movie Review 9,568

‘A living, crawling, hell on Earth!’ The 1977 B-movie sci-fi horror thriller Kingdom of the Spiders stars William Shatner as vet Dr Rack Hansen, who is somewhat surprised to find his Arizona town is being […]

Mar, 28

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] *** (1980, Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner) – Classic Movie Review 9567

Director Dick Lowry’s 1980 TV Movie Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] is a pleasant, good-looking Western, based on a hit song by the country singer Kenny Rogers, about a gambler called Brady Hawkes, […]

Mar, 27

Fritz the Cat **** (1972, voice of Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Judy Engles, Phil Seuling) – Classic Movie Review 9566

Writer-director Ralph Bakshi’s 1971 feature film debut Fritz the Cat is a naughty, outrageous satirical cartoon for switched-on early Seventies adults about the adventures of a raunchy New York alley puss, Fritz the Cat (voice […]

Mar, 27

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