Derek Winnert

The Trygon Factor ** (1966, Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley, Cathleen Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 9123

Director Cyril Frankel’s crazily convoluted, murky 1966 thriller The Trygon Factor is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace (uncredited) and stars Stewart Granger as Scotland Yard inspector Superintendent Cooper-Smith investigating an oddball English family […]

Dec, 04 · in Reviews

Man in the Wilderness **** (1971, Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, John Bindon, Prunella Ransome, Henry Wilcoxon, Ben Carruthers, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman) – Classic Movie Review 9122

Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1971 adventure Man in the Wilderness is a gory but involving great outdoors tale propelled with a rousing turn from Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a beaver hunter marooned in the […]

Dec, 03 · in Reviews

The Man Within [The Smugglers] ** (1947, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood, Richard Attenborough) – Classic Movie Review 9121

Director Bernard Knowles’s 1947 adventure The Man Within [The Smugglers] is based on the novel by Graham Greene, and stars Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough. Little orphan Francis Andrews (Attenborough) solves […]

Dec, 03

Charlie’s Angels * (2019, Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska) – Movie Review

Charlie’s Angels (2019) is empty-headed adventure comedy hokum, with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska and Elizabeth Banks all pleasant presences and working hard enough but to little avail. They are chasing after some ludicrous […]

Dec, 03

The Unknown **** (1927, Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz) – Classic Movie Review 9120

Lon Chaney Sr heads a fine cast as Alonzo, an armless knife thrower circus fakir, in director Tod Browning’s intriguing and engagingly weird, though less-famous 1927 MGM silent chiller The Unknown. Alonzo is literally a […]

Dec, 03

Universal Soldier ** (1972, George Lazenby, Edward Judd, Benito Carruthers, Germaine Greer, Rudolph Walker) – Classic Movie Review 9119

Director Cy Endfield’s 1972 war action drama Universal Soldier stars ex-Bond George Lazenby as mercenary Ryker, a gun for hire back in London with a view to a kill. Feminist Germaine Greer plays a feminist […]

Dec, 02

Knives Out ** (2019 Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer) – Movie Review

Sorry, it’s Knives Out here. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Agatha Christie spoof Knives Out is long (130 minutes), slow, draggy, stale and not much fun at all. The performances are uniformly arch and overstated. Daniel Craig […]

Dec, 02

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