Derek Winnert

The Don Is Dead ** (1973, Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins, Charles Cioffi) – Classic Movie Review 8590

‘In the Fall of 1971, Don Angelo DiMorra began an innocent affair with a beautiful woman. It started the bloodiest carnival of murder in the history of American crime.’ Frederic Forrest and Al Lettieri star […]

Jun, 14 · in Reviews

The Andromeda Strain **** (1971, James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8589

Arthur Hill stars as concerned scientist Dr Stone, who sacrifices himself for humanity in director Robert Wise’s tense, suspenseful, intelligent and just plain excellent 1971 sci-fi adventure The Andromeda Strain, adapted by screen-writer Nelson Gidding from […]

Jun, 13 · in Reviews

Mandingo *** (1975, James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, Ken Norton) – Classic Movie Review 8588

James Mason is surprisingly cast and equally surprisingly successful as Warren Maxwell, a rotten, racist Southern plantation owner, in director Richard Fleischer’s steamy and provocative 1840s-set Louisiana melodrama Mandingo from 1975. Maxwell arranges a marriage […]

Jun, 13

Marooned ** (1969, Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak, Mariette Hartley) – Classic Movie Review 8587

Director John Sturges’s well-crafted but slow and sombre 1969 Sci-Fi space adventure Marooned finds a fine cast headed by Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak and Mariette […]

Jun, 13

Count Three and Pray *** (1955, Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey, Raymond Burr, Allison Hayes, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8586

Director George Sherman’s 1955 Count Three and Pray is a very decent little Technicolor CinemaScope Western with a punchy performance by the sometimes too-quiet actor Van Heflin as the homecoming Civil War veteran Luke Fargo, […]

Jun, 12

Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? ** (1963, Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St John, Richard Conte, Louis Nye, Macha Méril, Yoko Tani, Allison Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 8585

Director Daniel Mann’s 1963 Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? stars Dean Martin as television actor Jason Steel, whose popularity as a sexy star playing a surgeon on a popular TV show leads to a […]

Jun, 12

The Crawling Hand * (1963, Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Alan Hale Jr, Allison Hayes, Tristram Coffin) – Movie Review 8584

Director Herbert L Strock’s 1963 poverty row film The Crawling Hand is a stinker. The low budget of $100,000 does it in. A space capsule is detonated in orbit and the astronaut inside blown up. […]

Jun, 12

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