Derek Winnert

A Jolly Bad Fellow [They All Died Laughing] **** (1964, Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Maxine Audley, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 8330

Director Don Chaffey’s 1964 British comedy A Jolly Bad Fellow [They All Died Laughing] stars Leo McKern as a philandering English chemistry don, Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery, who develops an undetectable poison to bump off those […]

Apr, 03 · in Reviews

The Jokers **** (1967, Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald, Daniel Massey, Michael Hordern, Gabriella Licudi, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 8329

Director Michael Winner’s 1967 British comedy The Jokers stars Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed as unlikely siblings, the Tremayne brothers, who, just for a lark and to make themselves famous, plan to rob Her Majesty […]

Apr, 03 · in Reviews

The Crossing [Guo Chun Tian] **** (2018, Huang Yao, Sunny Sun) – Movie Review

Giving an attractive, compelling, credible performance, Huang Yao is a sympathetic young heroine as Peipei, who has spent much of the 16 years of her life travelling between Hong Kong where she studies and Shenzhen […]

Apr, 02

Johnny Trouble *** (1957, Ethel Barrymore, Cecil Kellaway, Stuart Whitman, Carolyn Jones, Edd Byrnes) – Classic Movie Review 8328

Director John H Auer’s 1957 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Johnny Trouble stars lovely old Ethel Barrymore (aged 77) as Katherine Chandler, who desperately searches for her lost errant grandson, Johnny Chandler, nicknamed […]

Apr, 02

Darby’s Rangers [The Young Invaders] *** (1958, James Garner, Etchika Choureau, Jack Warden, Edd Byrnes, Venetia Stevenson, Torin Thatcher, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 8327

‘MAVERICK himself – in his first starring big-screen role!’ The young James Garner plays Major (later Colonel) William Darby and Jack Warden co-stars as Master Sergeant Saul Rosen, and they are among the members of […]

Apr, 02

Yellowstone Kelly *** (1959, Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell, Ray Danton, Claude Akins, Rhodes Reason, Warren Oates, Andra Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8,326

A slew of popular Warner Bros TV stars enlivens the highly professional 1959 Western film Yellowstone Kelly, starring Clint Walker from Cheyenne, Edd Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip and John Russell from Lawman.  A slew […]

Apr, 02

Up Periscope *** (1959, James Garner, Edmond O’Brien, Andra Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8325

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1959 Warner Bros drama Up Periscope is a tale of wartime underwater high-jinks, graced with James Garner as an underwater demolitions expert, US Navy Lieutenant Ken Braden, and Edmond O’Brien as an […]

Apr, 02

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