Derek Winnert

The Fourth War ** (1990, Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 8528

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]

May, 31 · in Reviews

The Horsemen ** (1971, Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 8527

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1971 macho action adventure drama The Horsemen is propelled with a sterling performance by Omar Sharif as Uraz, the son of sheikh Tursen (Jack Palance), wounded and humiliated in a barbaric variant […]

May, 31 · in Reviews

The Holcroft Covenant (1985, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 8526

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1985 The Holcroft Covenant is a risible political thriller based on Robert Ludlum’s potboiling yarn about the clash over the fate of a $4,000 million potentially dangerous bequest by a German General […]

May, 31

The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]

May, 31

The Ambassador ** (1984 Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Donald Pleasence, Fabio Testi) – Classic Movie Review 8524

Elmore Leonard’s excellent 1974 novel 52 Pick-Up is reworked as J Lee Thompson’s watchable and entertaining 1984 political thriller The Ambassador starring Robert Mitchum as the American ambassador to Israel trying to solve the crisis […]

May, 30

52 Pick-Up ** (1986, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman, Kelly Preston, Doug McClure) – Classic Movie Review 8523

Something is missing in director John Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime thriller film 52 Pick-Up – credibility, pace, wit and brevity for a start. The Cannon Group remake Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel just 18 months after their […]

May, 30

Dead Bang ** (1989, Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 8522

Director John Frankenheimer’s hard-edged 1989 actual-life action crime drama Dead Bang stars Don Johnson as burnt-out LA homicide cop Jerry Beck, who uncovers a white supremacy gang while he is investigating the murder of a […]

May, 30

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