Derek Winnert

Tora! Tora! Tora! *** (1970, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Edward Andrews, Leon Ames, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8412

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! is a huge-budget wartime disaster movie that re-creates the whole story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday  7 December 1941, as US code breakers work […]

Apr, 29 · in Reviews

Closet Land *** (1991, Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman) – Classic Movie Review 8411

The 1991 political thriller Closet Land stars Alan Rickman as a cultured but sadistic secret policeman inquisator (the (Interrogator) who tries to extort information out of his blindfolded victim, the supposedly subversive children’s writer (the […]

Apr, 29 · in Reviews

My New Gun ** (1992, Diane Lane, James Le Gros, Stephen Collins, Tess Harper, Bill Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 8410

Writer-director Stacy Cochran’s 1992 thriller My New Gun stars Diane Lane as Debbie Bender, a thirtysomething New Jersey suburban housewife who is given a gun by her successful radiologist husband Gerald (Stephen Collins). But it […]

Apr, 29

The Key ** (1958, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 8,409

In World War II, British tugboat captains pass on the key to a home-port apartment, where lonely war widow Sophia Loren lives, in the 1958 film The Key. Director Carol Reed’s 1958 British black and […]

Apr, 28

They Call Me Trinity [Lo chiamavano Trinità…] *** (1970, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger, Steffen Zacharias) – Classic Movie Review 8408

Terence Hill is the man they call Trinity [Trinità] in director Enzo Barboni’s amusingly silly 1971 comedy spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity [Lo chiamavano Trinità…], where he is paired, as so often, with Bud […]

Apr, 28

Johnny Dark *** (1954, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Paul Kelly, Ilka Chase) – Classic Movie Review 8407

‘A story of fast cars… reckless women… and sudden danger… and a guy who loved all three!’ That will be Tony Curtis aka Johnny Dark. Director George Sherman’s larkish 1954 B-movie racing car melodrama Johnny […]

Apr, 28

Johnny Dangerously *** (1984, Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Richard Dimitri, Glynnis O’Connor, Dom DeLuise, Ray Walston, Danny DeVito) – Classic Movie Review 8406

Director Amy Heckerling’s 1984 comedy Johnny Dangerously stars Michael Keaton, who leads an amiable cast in a Thirties gangster spoof that falls slightly short of the target but still is amusing a lot of the […]

Apr, 28

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