Derek Winnert

Day of Anger [I Giorni dell’ira] **** (1967, Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 9322

Director Tonino Valerii’s excellent spaghetti action Western Day of Anger [I Giorni dell’ira] (1967) stars Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma and Walter Rilla. Giuliano Gemma plays Scott Mary, garbage boy and toilet cleaner in the […]

Jan, 30 · in Reviews

Deathsport * (1978, David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 9321

Directors Nicholas Niciphor [Henry Suso] and Allan Arkush’s futuristic 1978 science fiction B-movie Deathsport is the much less exciting, much less amusing, much less successful follow-up to Death Race 2000, with motorcycles instead of cars. David […]

Jan, 29 · in Reviews

Cannonball [Carquake] *** (1976, David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 9320

Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]

Jan, 29

Come Fill the Cup *** (1951, James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Gig Young, Raymond Massey, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 9319

James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]

Jan, 29

Come Fly with Me ** (1963, Dolores Hart, Hugh O’Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 9318

Director Henry Levin 1962 grounded Come Fly with Me tells the romantic tale of three empty-headed air hostesses (Dolores Hart as Donna Stuart, Pamela Tiffin as Carol Brewster and Lois Nettleton as ‘Bergie’ Bergstrom) looking […]

Jan, 29

Diamonds on Wheels *** (1973, Peter Firth, Patrick Allen, George Sewell, Derek Newark) – Classic Movie Review 9317

The young Peter Firth, then star of Equus on stage, took on a very different role as Bobby Stewart, a boy who restores a sports car –  a late Forties red MG TC – that […]

Jan, 29

The Southern Star *** (1969, George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry) – Classic Movie Review 9316

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1969 UK France co-production caper The Southern Star [L’Etoile du Sud] is a carefree, endearing Sixties adventure movie of fun and games in Africa, with a slapdash script based remotely on a […]

Jan, 29

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