Derek Winnert

The Mind Benders ** (1963, Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig) – Classic Movie Review 9,379

Basil Dearden’s 1963 British thriller The Mind Benders is an ambitious, intelligent film with a fascinating theme. It enjoys quality acting, particularly by Dirk Bogarde. Director Basil Dearden’s 1963 British thriller film The Mind Benders is written […]

Feb, 14 · in Reviews

Footsteps in the Fog *** (1955, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 British noir Footsteps in the Fog is a solid Fifties British-made, Hitchcockian Suspicion-style thriller, with stylish acting from the then real-life husband-and-wife team Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons as the wife […]

Feb, 13 · in Reviews

Birds of Prey * (2020, Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor) – Movie Review

Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn has been hastily renamed Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey, in hope that the clearer title will mean healthier box office and will boost search […]

Feb, 13

The Lady and the Bandit ** (1951, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Suzanne Dalbert, Tom Tully, Alan Mowbray, John Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1951 black and white adventure The Lady and the Bandit [Dick Turpin’s Ride] stars Louis Hayward, who is reasonably well cast as highwayman Dick Turpin, in this jolly, if not brilliant, American-made, […]

Feb, 13

Captain Pirate *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9377

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1952 swashbuckling action adventure Captain Pirate [Captain Blood Fugitive] is the improved Technicolor sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and is based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel Captain Blood Returns. It again […]

Feb, 13

Fortunes of Captain Blood ** (1950, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 9376

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 swashbuckling adventure film Fortunes of Captain Blood is an acceptably humble adventure, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, though the routine script and direction, and the cheap-looking Columbia Pictures production […]

Feb, 13

40 Carats *** (1973, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9375

Director Milton Katselas’s 1973 romantic comedy drama 40 Carats [Forty Carats] stars Liv Ullmann as a glamorous 40-year-old divorced wife, Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley, who has a fling with an American boy (Edward Albert) half […]

Feb, 13

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