Derek Winnert

Scream for Help ** (1984, Rachael Kelly, Marie Masters, David Allen Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 9102

Producer-director Michael Winner’s undistinguished 1984 woman in jeopardy movie Scream for Help offers loopy horror antics when a teenager, Christie Cromwell (Rachel Kelly), realises that her stepfather is trying to kill her and her mother. […]

Nov, 27 · in Reviews

The Savage Eye *** (1960, Barbara Baxley, Gary Merrill, Herschel Bernardi) – Classic Movie Review 9101

Writers/ producers/ directors Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers and Joseph Strick’s odd but engaging 1959 docu-drama The Savage Eye stars Barbara Baxley, who is believable as Judith McGuire, a disillusioned woman trying to see if there […]

Nov, 26 · in Uncategorized

My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund] **** (1985, Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén) – Classic Movie Review 9100

‘It could have been worse. I’ve actually been lucky. If you compare… My Life as a Dog’ Set in the Fifties, director Lasse Hallström’s magical bitter-sweet 1985 film My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv […]

Nov, 26

Heidi *** (1937, Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 9099

‘Shirley’s a Little Swiss Miss in the Loveliest Story of Her Career!’ Director Allan Dwan’s 1937 children’s film Heidi is based on the much loved book by Johanna Spyri and stars an ideally cast Shirley […]

Nov, 26

Tumbleweed *** (1953, Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills) – Classic Movie Review 9098

Director Nathan Juran’s enjoyable, good little 1953 Western movie Tumbleweed stars Audie Murphy as Jim Harvey, who is taken on as the protector of a wagon train going to California when he leaves while it […]

Nov, 25

A High Wind in Jamaica **** (1965, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Ben Carruthers) – Classic Movie Review 9,097

Aged 15, author Martin Amis played John Thornton in the 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film A High Wind in Jamaica, an enchanting film version of the Richard Hughes novel. Young Martin Amis, now a famed best-selling […]

Nov, 25

High, Wide and Handsome *** (1937, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 9096

Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1937 film High, Wide and Handsome is a high-spirited and handsome but only moderate musical Western from the Paramount Pictures studio, which at least had the good sense to convene the best […]

Nov, 25

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