Derek Winnert

Priest of Love ** (1981, Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith, Jorge Rivero, John Gielgud, Graham Faulkner) – Classic Movie Review 8504

Director Christopher Miles’s 1981 literary biopic Priest of Love is written by Alan Plater, based on the book by Harry T Moore and the letters and writings of D H Lawrence, and stars Ian McKellen, […]

May, 27 · in Uncategorized

Callan **** (1974, Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Carl Möhner, Catherine Schell, Peter Egan, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8503

Director Don Sharp’s excellent 1974 British crime action thriller Callan [The Neutralizer] is an imaginatively developed and extended version of the opening programme of Edward Woodward’s popular TV show from 1967, about a lonely, ruthless […]

May, 27 · in Reviews

The Last Grenade ** (1970, Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Rafer Johnson, John Thaw, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, Ray Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 8502

Director Gordon Flemyng’s 1970 British war film The Last Grenade is a one-dimensional, brutal movie about the fatal conflict between two ex-buddy soldiers of fortune, Major Harry Grigsby (Stanley Baker) and turncoat Kip Thompson (Alex Cord), […]

May, 27

Innocent Bystanders ** (1972, Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 8501

Donald Pleasence and Dana Andrews play the heads of British and US intelligence, and Stanley Baker plays the top British spy-in-action, in director Peter Collinson’s 1972 Innocent Bystanders, a rather feeble secret agent thriller about […]

May, 26

The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] *** (1952, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 8500

Director Compton Bennett’s 1952 black and white war adventure drama The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] stars Trevor Howard as disliked ship’s captain Lieutenant Commander Hugh Alginon Fraser, who struggles with his crew but wins […]

May, 26

The Dark Crystal **** (1982, voices of Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Brian Muehl, Steve Whitmire) – Classic Movie Review 8499

The Muppets’ men Jim Henson and Frank Oz create a convincing and magical universe of puppets with this elaborate, magical family fantasy adventure that soon casts quite a spell in the 1982 British film The […]

May, 26

Dancing with Crime *** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Barry K Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 8498

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1947 mystery crime drama Dancing with Crime is an interesting attempt at a post-war British quickie in the American crime melodrama style starring real-life couple Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim as […]

May, 26

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