Derek Winnert

An Innocent Man ** (1989, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins) – Classic Movie Review 9092

Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]

Nov, 23 · in Uncategorized

The Hero of Babylon [L’eroe di Babilonia] ** (1963, Gordon Scott, Moira Orfei, Geneviève Grad, Piero Lulli, Andrea Scotti) – Classic Movie Review 9091

‘Slave girls sacrificed at the whim of a ruthless king!’ Director Siro Marcellini’s 1963 sword and sandal (peplum) adventure The Hero of Babylon [L’eroe di Babilonia] [Goliath, King of Slaves] [The Beast of Babylon Against […]

Nov, 23 · in Reviews

Operation Daybreak ** (1975, Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Anthony Andrews, Anton Diffring, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett) – Classic Movie Review 9,090

Lewis Gilbert’s 1975 wartime historical drama thriller film Operation Daybreak is a well-intentioned account of the Czech underground’s attempt to assassinate SS general Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1975 World War Two wartime historical drama thriller […]

Nov, 22

Opening Night **** (1977, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert)- Classic Movie Review 9,089

Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]

Nov, 22

Open Season [Los Cazadores] * (1974, Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, William Holden, Cornelia Sharpe) – Classic Movie Review 9088

Director Peter Collinson’s violent, nasty and distasteful 1974 action thriller drama Open Season [Los Cazadores] is based on the novel The All Americans by David D Osborn, and stars Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, […]

Nov, 22

Orders Are Orders ** (1954, Peter Sellers, Sidney James, Tony Hancock, Brian Reece, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley, June Thorburn) – Classic Movie Review 9087

Director David Paltenghi’s 1954 comedy Orders Are Orders is an engagingly cast (and grammatically correct) though iffily handled retread of Walter Forde’s vintage Orders Is Orders (1933), with a British army base driven to distraction […]

Nov, 22

Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] *** (1983, Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, Sylvia Sidney) – Classic Movie Review 9086

Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]

Nov, 21

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