Derek Winnert

633 Squadron *** (1964, Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8508

Director Walter Grauman’s 1964 movie 633 Squadron stars Cliff Robertson (as Wing Commander Roy Grant) and an oddly cast George Chakiris (as Lieutenant Erik Bergman), who keep their tongues in their cheeks and their upper […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

The Night My Number Came Up **** (1955, Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 8507

A military transport aircraft’s flight from Hong Kong to Japan starts to bear a startling similarity to one of the passenger’s bad dreams, which had ended with a plane crash. Michael Redgrave stars as the […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

Great Day *** (1945, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim) – Classic Movie Review 8,506

The 1945 British drama film Great Day stars Eric Portman, Flora Robson and Sheila Sim in a story about the excitement in an English village at the upcoming visit of American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Director Lance […]

May, 28

The Virgin and the Gypsy *** (1970, Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 8505

D H Lawrence’s minor tale of an English clergyman’s prim and proper virginal daughter Yvette (played by Canadian actress Joanna Shimkus) who falls for the sexual charms of a glowering, pale-eyed, seductively virile gypsy (Italian […]

May, 27

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

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

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

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