Derek Winnert

Beau James *** (1957, Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 9434

Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]

Feb, 27 · in Uncategorized

The Hard Man ** (1957, Guy Madison, Valerie French, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 9433

‘The Hard Man Will EXCITE You!’: The 1957 Technicolor Western film The Hard Man stars Guy Madison as Steve Burden, who takes the job of Deputy in El Solito, controlled by a villainous cattle baron […]

Feb, 27 · in Reviews

The Long Hair of Death [I lunghi capelli della morte] *** (1965, Barbara Steele, George Ardisson, Halina Zalewska) – Classic Movie Review 9432

Director Antonio Margheriti’s black and white Gothic 1965 Italian giallo thriller The Long Hair of Death [I Lughi Capelli della Morte] stars Barbara Steele as mysterious vengeful Helen Karnstein, who comes back from the dead to […]

Feb, 26

The Long Gray Line *** (1955, Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Francis) – Classic Movie Review 9431

John Ford’s 1955 biopic The Long Gray Line is a rambling, amiable, catch-in-the-throat toast to West Point coach Marty Maher (Tyrone Power) and his 50 years at the renowned military academy. An apparently well-cast Power […]

Feb, 26

Memoirs of an Invisible Man ** (1992, Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill) – Classic Movie Review 9430

Director John Carpenter’s 1992 Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a shaky but tolerable special effects-led comedy action thriller revision of the 1933 Claude Rains classic The Invisible Man that casts the wrong star in […]

Feb, 25

Cleopatra Jones *** (1973, Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas) – Classic Movie Review 9429

‘If you haven’t seen Cleo, you haven’t seen the chick who tops ’em all… She’s 6’2″‘ Director Jack Starrett’s robust 1973 blaxploitation action crime thriller stars Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones, a karate-kicking CIA agent […]

Feb, 25

Be Big! *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 9428

‘Mr Hardy is a man of great care, caution and discretion – Mr Laurel is married too.’ ‘No man is bigger than the excuses he makes to his wife. So Be Big!’ Director James Parrott’s […]

Feb, 25

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