Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Double Dynamite ** (1951, Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Movie Review 7480

Director Irving Cummings Jr’s 1951 RKO Radio Pictures black and white musical comedy stars the formidable trio of Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra, and is based on a story by Leo Rosten, with a screenplay by by Leo […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

No Name on the Bullet *** (1959, Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans) – Classic Movie Review 7479

Director Jack Arnold’s 1959 Western No Name on the Bullet stars World War Two’s most decorated soldier Audie Murphy as John Gant, the strong silent type of mystery killer. Gant rides into town to shoot […]

Aug, 21 · in Reviews

Barquero *** (1970, Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker, Mariette Hartley, Kerwin Mathews) – Classic Movie Review 7478

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1970 Barquero is a stylish and excitingly brutish attempt by the Americans to ape the Spaghetti Western style, with bald, grizzled star Lee Van Cleef as Travis, a spunky barge operator ferryman […]

Aug, 21

The Young Land ** (1959, Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig, Dennis Hopper, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 7477

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s 1957 Western The Young Land re-tells that old chestnut story about the lawman Sheriff Jim Ellison (Patrick [Pat] Wayne) arresting a young, Caucasian American gunman Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper) who has killed a Mexican […]

Aug, 20

The Young in Heart **** (1938, Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Minnie Dupree) – Classic Movie Review 7476

Director Richard Wallace’s 1938 The Young in Heart is a lovely, warm and very funny, typically Thirties-style screwball comedy about a family of likeable rogues, in this case loveable rogues. It is written by Paul […]

Aug, 20

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) [Oktyabr] ***** (1927, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov) – Classic Movie Review 7475

Director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1927 documentary-style Russian silent film classic October [Oktyabr] re-enacts the Ten Days that Shook the World (its alternative title) when the Bolsheviks stormed Russia’s Winter Palace in October 1917. Film students […]

Aug, 20

Troll * (1986, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Sonny Bono, June Lockhart, Noah Hathaway) – Classic Movie Review 7474

Director John Carl Buechler’s 1986 horror film Troll is fondly remembered but it is unconvincing and ridiculous throughout. It is bad, but unfortunately it is not quite in the so-bad-it’s good category. It is just […]

Aug, 20

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