Derek Winnert

Alone on the Pacific **** (1963, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka) – Classic Movie Review 9076

Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese adventure classic Alone on the Pacific [Taiheiyô Hitoribotchi] [My Enemy the Sea] stars Yûjirô Ishihara as Kenichi Horie, a young man who defies his parents, the authorities and the sea […]

Nov, 18 · in Reviews

Always *** (1985, Patrice Townsend, Henry Jaglom, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins, Melissa Leo) – Classic Movie Review 9075

Writer/ producer/ director Henry Jaglom’s clever and cultish 1985 romantic drama Always is a Woody Allen-style tale of a group of friends with love, marriage and divorce on their minds – one couple is going […]

Nov, 17 · in Reviews

Castaway ** (1986, Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 9074

Nicolas Roeg’s 1986 film Castaway stars Oliver Reed as middle-aged Englishman Gerald Kingsland, who puts an advert in a London magazine for a companion/ wife to take to a tropical desert island for a year […]

Nov, 17

Alvarez Kelly *** (1966, William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 9073

Based on an actual incident, director Edward Dmytryk’s meaty 1966 American Civil War Western saga Alvarez Kelly is firm enough in its staunch liberal-minded principles to stay on course when the unravelling of the plot occasionally […]

Nov, 16

Along the Great Divide *** (1951, Kirk Douglas, Virginia Mayo, John Agar, Walter Brennan, John Agar, Ray Teal) – Classic Movie Review 9072

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 romance adventure Western movie Along the Great Divide stars Kirk Douglas as the new federal lawman Marshal Len Merrick, who saves old Tim ‘Pop’ Keith (Walter Brennan) from the noose in […]

Nov, 16

The Mercenaries [Dark of the Sun] *** (1968, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, Kenneth More, Peter Carsten) – Classic Movie Review 9071

Wilbur Smith’s second published novel The Dark of the Sun (1965), about mercenaries during the Congo Crisis, was filmed as The Mercenaries (1968) starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux. Director Jack Cardiff’s 1968 MGM British movie The Mercenaries [Dark of the […]

Nov, 15

A Time for Killing ** (1967, Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, Paul Petersen) – Classic Movie Review 9070

Directors Phil Karlson and Roger Corman’s 1967 Western A Time for Killing [The Long Ride Home] stars Glenn Ford as Union soldier Major Charles Wolcott, who chases escaped Confederate prisoners led by Captain Dorrit Bentley […]

Nov, 15

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