Derek Winnert

The Stranger Left No Card **** (1952, Alan Badel, Cameron Hall, Geoffrey Bayldon) – Classic Movie Review 9500

Director-deviser Wendy Toye’s excellent 1952 British black and white short film mystery drama The Stranger Left No Card stars the young Alan Badel in his film debut as an enigmatic stranger who arrives by train […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

The Battle of Neretva [Bitka na Neretvi] *** (1969, Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Curd Jürgens, Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles, Sergei Bondarchuk) – Classic Movie Review 9499

Director Veljko Bulajic’s 1969 historical war drama The Battle of Neretva [Bitka na Neretvi] features a star-studded international cast of Yul Brynner, Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens], Sylva Koscina, Orson Welles, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero and […]

Mar, 12 · in Reviews

The Bushido Blade ** (1981, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Frank Converse, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 9498

‘BUSHIDO means revenge – BUSHIDO means bloodshed – BUSHIDO means violent death!’ Director Tsugunobu [Tom] Kotani’s 19th-century-set Kung Fu action thriller The Bushido Blade [The Bloody Bushido Blade](1981) stars Richard Boone as Commodore Matthew Perry, […]

Mar, 12

The 6th Day * (2000, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Duvall, Michael Rooker) – Classic Movie Review 9497

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s 2000 The 6th Day stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as pilot Adam Gibson, who comes home one night to find that he has been mistakenly replaced by his clone. He uncovers a deadly secret […]

Mar, 11

Commando *** (1985, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya) Classic Movie Review 9496

Director Mark L Lester’s time-passing Rambo-esque 1985 action thriller Commando is a pre-superstardom vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is chucked together, in another of those odd-couple couplings, with Rae Dawn Chong on the trail of […]

Mar, 11

Come Back Charleston Blue *** (1972, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Peter De Anda) – Classic Movie Review 9495

Come Back Charleston Blue is an underrated blaxploitation comedy crime action thriller from the first (Seventies) wave of black movies. Director Mark Warren’s 1972 sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (based on the Chester Himes […]

Mar, 11

Cotton Comes to Harlem *** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Calvin Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 9494

Director Ossie Davis’s 1970 comedy crime action thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem stars Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques as black detectives Gravedigger Jones (Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (St Jacques). The two Harlem cops […]

Mar, 11

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