Derek Winnert

Tentacles ** (1977, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda) – Classic Movie Review 8613

Director Oliver Hellman’s 1977 giant octopus/ killer whale horror thriller Tentacles [Tentacoli] is Italy’s daft, cheap-looking riposte to Jaws, in which a mutated huge octopus menaces a Californian beach resort. You really do not expect to […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No ** (1968, Virna Lisi, George Segal, Lila Kedrova, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 8612

Director Franco Brusati’s 1968 Italian comedy The Girl Who Couldn’t Say No [Il Suo Modo di Fare] [Tenderly] stars George Segal as the prim and proper Italian doctor Franco, who has love problems with his […]

Jun, 19 · in Reviews

Deep Red [Profundo Rosso] **** (1976, David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Macha Méril, Gabriele Lavia) – Classic Movie Review 8611

Director Dario Argento’s highly esteemed 1975 Italian giallo film Deep Red [Profundo Rosso] is written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi and was released on 7 March 1975 in Milan and Rome. It stars David Hemmings […]

Jun, 19

Property Is No Longer a Theft [La proprietà non è più un furto] **** (1973, Ugo Tognazzi, Flavio Bucci, Daria Nicolodi) – Classic Movie Review 8610

The 1973 comedy drama Property Is No Longer a Theft [La proprietà non è più un furto] is the last film in Italian director Elio Petri’s essential Trilogy of Neurosis, starting with Investigation of a […]

Jun, 19

The Assassin [L’Assassino] *** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni, Salvo Randone, Andrea Checci) – Classic Movie Review 8609

Director Elio Petri’s 1961 Italian black and white crime thriller The Assassin [L’Assassino] [The Ladykiller of Rome] stars Marcello Mastroianni as rich but dodgy antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli, who is arrested and accused of murdering […]

Jun, 18

The Tenth Victim [La Decima Vittima] *** (1965, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 8608

Director Elio Petri’s 1965 Italian movie The Tenth Victim [La Decima Vittima] is a fascinating, bizarre Sixties sci-fi action drama with a darkly comic undertone about a future society that offers prizes to licensed killers […]

Jun, 18

The Working Class Go to Heaven [La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso] ***** (1971, Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice) – Classic Movie Review 8607 –

Director Elio Petri’s 1971 film The Working Class Go to Heaven [La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso] stars Gian Maria Volontè as factory worker Lulù Massa, who upsets his co-workers and mistress Lidia (Mariangela Melato) […]

Jun, 18

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