Derek Winnert

Twelve Plus One [12 + 1] [The Thirteen Chairs] ** (1969, Sharon Tate, Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Tim Brooke-Taylor, William Rushton, Mylène Demongeot) – Classic Movie Review 8847

Co-writer/ director Nicholas Gessner’s 1969 Italian comedy Twelve Plus One [12 + 1] [The Thirteen Chairs] is an interesting but oddly unpersuasive piece, with a hesitant tone, but it is notable for the last screen […]

Aug, 20 · in Reviews

Hearts of Fire ** (1987, Bob Dylan, Fiona Flanagan, Rupert Everett) – Classic Movie Review 8845

Director Richard Marquand’s 1987 Hearts of Fire features the irresistible paring of Bob Dylan and Rupert Everett. How great is that, and how unusual? And both of them singing, too, Dylan performing two of his […]

Aug, 20 · in Reviews

Venom * (1981, Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Susan George) – Classic Movie Review 8846

Snakes alive! Director Piers Haggard’s 1981 film Venom features half a dozen screen legends (Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Susan George) stranded in a silly horror thriller movie without any […]

Aug, 20

And God Created Woman * (1988, Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 8844

In 1988 Roger Vadim took the title of his Fifties Brigitte Bardot hit …And God Created Woman  [Et Dieu… Créa La Femme] (1956) and filmed a new story with Rebecca De Mornay this time doing […]

Aug, 19

Eye of the Needle *** (1981, Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Stephen MacKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8843

Director Richard Marquand’s 1981 British wartime romantic adventure thriller film Eye of the Needle stars Donald Sutherland, who is on best menacing form as Herr Faber, the deadly Nazi agent who discovers a ruse by […]

Aug, 19

Eye of the Devil ** (1967, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Emlyn Williams, Flora Robson, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Sharon Tate) – Classic Movie Review 8842

Director J Lee Thompson’s promising but clunky 1967 occult crime horror mystery thriller Eye of the Devil stars David Niven, who looks lost as Philippe de Montfaucon, the wine-growing French marquis who has to be […]

Aug, 19

Vengeance ** (1968, Richard Harrison, Claudio Camaso, Spela Rozin, Werner Pochath, Paolo Gozlino) – Classic Movie Review 8841

‘FIVE MEN HELD THE BALANCE OF DEATH… …his revenge explodes in a blaze of hellfire!’ Director Anthony M Dawson’s fairly appetising 1968 Spaghetti Western Vengeance [Joko, Invoca Dio… e Muori] was shot in Almería, Andalucía, […]

Aug, 19

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