Derek Winnert

Fiesta ** (1947, Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban, John Carroll, Cyd Charisse, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8349

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1947 slim escapist entertainment Fiesta is vaguely amusing but not MGM’s best musical, thanks to slack work by writers George Bruce and Lester Cole. Unfortunately, it is hardly a musical at all, […]

Apr, 09 · in Reviews

Reptilicus * (1961, Carl Ottosen, Ann Smymer, Bent Mejding, Asbjørn Andersen, Povl Wøldike) – Classic Movie Review 8348

Director Sidney W Pink’s 1961 low-budget monster movie Reptilicus is a pretty daft and badly done sci-fi horror action movie, in which part of a prehistoric monster’s frozen tail is discovered by copper miners and […]

Apr, 09 · in Reviews

The Beast of Hollow Mountain ** (1956, Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas) – Classic Movie Review 8347

Directors Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriguez’s 1956 Mexican Sci-Fi horror Western movie The Beast of Hollow Mountain stars Guy Madison as Jimmy Ryan, an American cowboy rancher living in Mexico who suspects a Plasticine monster […]

Apr, 08

The Neanderthal Man * (1953, Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 8346

Director E A Dupont’s 1953 black and white sci-fi  horror movie The Neanderthal Man stars Robert Shayne as mad scientist Professor Clifford Groves, who takes his serum and turns a cat into a saber-tooth tiger […]

Apr, 08

Nazi Agent **** (1942, Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher) – Classic Movie Review 8345

Jules Dassin is promoted from MGM’s short subjects unit and directs the tense, often exciting 1942 black and white wartime drama feature Nazi Agent effectively, and the fine cast adds a lot of allure. Nazi […]

Apr, 08

Watch Your Stern *** (1960, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 8344

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 British black and white comedy Watch Your Stern stars Kenneth Connor as the extraordinarily incompetent Ordinary Seaman Blissworth, who impresses admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew (Noel Purcell) by pretending to be the […]

Apr, 08

Nearly a Nasty Accident ** (1961, Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wattis, Ronnie Stevens, Jon Pertwee, Eric Barker, Peter Jones, Jack Watling, Joyce Carey, Terry Scott) – Classic Movie Review 8343

Director Don Chaffey’s 1961 Nearly a Nasty Accident is a welcome if routine and very mild British comedy, based on a play called Touch Wood by David Carr, about a meek-mannered National Serviceman aircraft mechanic (Kenneth […]

Apr, 08

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