Derek Winnert

Mayerling *** (1968, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Genevieve Page) – Classic Movie Review 8477

Director Terence Young’s 1968 Mayerling is the third movie version (after 1936’s Mayerling and 1940’s Sarajevo) of the story from Claude Anet’s novel about the 19th-century misalliance of the Austrian Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf. Mayerling […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

Don’t Talk to Strange Men *** (1962, Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 8476

Director Pat Jackson’s taut, tense and tight little 1962 black and white British thriller Don’t Talk to Strange Men tackles the theme of a child talking with a stranger and phone terror. It stars Christina […]

May, 17 · in Reviews

The Mind of Mr Soames ** (1970, Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, Donal Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 8475

Amicus Productions tries for classy science fiction with director Alan Cooke’s 1970 British sci-fi drama The Mind of Mr Soames, starring Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts, and Donal Donnelly, based on the […]

May, 17

The Brigand of Kandahar *** (1965, Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8474

‘His Plundering Army of Bandit Raiders Sweeps to Glory Across the Plains of India!’ Hammer Films studios recast a rather handsome young Oliver Reed, star of their The Pirates of Blood River (1962) and The […]

May, 17

Brigham Young **** (1940, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jagger, Jane Darwell, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8473

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1940 historical adventure saga of pioneering Mormons and the founding of Salt Lake City stars Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell and Brian Donlevy, with Dean Jagger on good form as Brigham Young, the […]

May, 16

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979, Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 8472

Alas poor Michael Caine! This is his second bad movie at the start of a bad late Seventies run for him, working in America on Irwin Allen’s 1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, the terrible sequel […]

May, 16

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum *** (2019, Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Anjelica Huston, Mark Dacascos) – Movie Review

Director Chad Stahelski returns for the 2019 third installment of Keanu Reeves’s hit action crime thriller series John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, with some dazzlingly brilliant action scenes and stunts, actually many, many dazzlingly brilliant […]

May, 16

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