Derek Winnert

Caboblanco [Cabo Blanco] * (1980, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda) – Classic Movie Review 8316

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1980 Charles Bronson vehicle Caboblanco [Cabo Blanco] is a faintly absurd, ineptly made romantic adventure thriller, remotely based on Casablanca apparently, but without properly understanding its appeal. One-time Nazis, fleeing post-World […]

Mar, 31 · in Uncategorized

Cabin in the Sky **** (1943, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 8315

The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]

Mar, 31 · in Uncategorized

Untamed *** (1955, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead, Rita Moreno, Hope Emerson, Brad Dexter, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8314

Director Henry King’s 1955 DeLuxe colour and widescreen adventure Untamed is a busy, complex, handsome-looking, well-done African epic, in which Tyrone Power stars as Boer leader Paul Van Riebeck, who romances impetuous colleen Katie O’Neill […]

Mar, 30

Godspell *** (1973, Victor Garber, David Haskell, Jerry Sroka, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, Robin Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8313

Director David Greene’s 1973 film of the deliberately naïve hit musical Godspell (a stage hit for David Essex in Britain) by Stephen Schwartz (music) and John Michael Tebelak (lyrics) turns the story of Christ into […]

Mar, 30

Thunderbirds Are GO *** (1966, voices of Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, Paul Maxwell, Neil McCallum, Shane Rimmer) – Classic Movie Review 8312

Yes, Thunderbirds are go in writer-producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s classic Sixties puppet action sci-fi adventure Thunderbirds Are GO based on the children’s TV stories of the adventures of International Rescue. This time it’s Thunderbirds […]

Mar, 30

A Day of Fury ** (1956, Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Carl Benton Reid, John Dehner, Jan Merlin, James Bell) – Classic Movie Review 8311

Director Harmon Jones’s sturdy 1956 Universal Pictures Western film A Day of Fury stars Dale Robertson as the pistol-slinging cowboy Jagade, unhappy with the cleaned-up town where he dwells, who decides to reopen the saloon […]

Mar, 29

The Day of the Dolphin *** (1973, George C Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 8310

Director Mike Nichols’s 1973 adventure film The Day of the Dolphin stars George C Scott as oceanologist Dr Jake Terrell, who finds how to communicate in dolphin-speak with the attractive title mammals that wicked villain […]

Mar, 29

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