Derek Winnert

The Earth Dies Screaming ** (1964, Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 9242

Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 British sci-fi horror quickie The Earth Dies Screaming is cheap and cheerful. [Spoiler alert] Robots have turned most folk in England into zombies. Well we knew all this telly watching wouldn’t […]

Jan, 08 · in Reviews

Earth Girls Are Easy *** (1988, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey) – Classic Movie Review 9241

Director Julien Temple’s 1988 Earth Girls Are Easy stars Geena Davis as scatty Southern California manicurist Valerie Dale, who has a close encounter with three hairy extra-terrestrials who crash-land in her swimming pool, and in […]

Jan, 08 · in Reviews

Hangman’s Knot *** (1952, Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jarman Jr, Frank Faylen, Lee Marvin) – Classic Movie Review 9240

Writer-director Roy Huggins’s 1952 Columbia Pictures Technicolor Western Hangman’s Knot stars Randolph Scott as Major Matt Stewart, who with his Confederate troop kills an escort of Union cavalry soldiers while ambushing a train full of […]

Jan, 08

The Hangman ** (1959, Robert Taylor, Tina Louise, Fess Parker, Jack Lord) – Classic Movie Review 9239

Director Michael Curtiz’s uninspired 1959 Western film The Hangman stars Robert Taylor as embittered sheriff U.S. Marshal Bovard, nicknamed The Hangman, who arrives in a small US border town to arrest a fugitive after four […]

Jan, 08

Handgun [Deep in the Heart] **** (1983, Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys) – Classic Movie Review 9238

Director Tony Garnett’s 1982 revenge thriller Handgun [Deep in My Heart] stars Karen Young as Dallas teacher Kathleen Sullivan, who sets out to avenge herself on her gun-toting rapist, Texan lawyer Larry Keeler (Clayton Day), […]

Jan, 08

Thief of Hearts **** (1984, Steven Bauer, Barbara Williams, John Getz) – Classic Movie Review 9237

Director Douglas Day Stewart’s excellent 1984 noir romantic thriller Thief of Hearts stars Steven Bauer as Scott Muller, a burglar smouldering with lust for Mickey Davis (Barbara Williams), a young married woman whose intimate diary […]

Jan, 08

Strictly Ballroom **** (1992, Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 9236

The 1992 Australian heart-warmer Strictly Ballroom started life as a play, but director Baz Luhrmann recreates it cinematically, swirling you along and sending you away dancing. Take a bit of David and Goliath, a bit […]

Jan, 07

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