Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Uncategorized

The White Crow **** (2018, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann) – Movie Review

Whether emoting or dancing, Oleg Ivenko is mesmerising as Rudolf Nureyev in director Ralph Fiennes’s intense, multi-layered story of the Russian dancer’s defection to the West. How he dances! He hardly looks like Nureyev, really, […]

Apr, 02

Billy Jack *** (1971, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat) – Classic Movie Review 8324

Tom Laughlin writes, directs and stars in this once radical and significant, but now very dated and rather hollow-seeming 1971 hippie-era anti establishment drama about a half Native American Vietnam vet wandering round Texas harassed […]

Apr, 01

Unman, Wittering and Zigo *** (1971, David Hemmings, Carolyn Seymour, Douglas Wilmer) – Classic Movie Review 8323

Director John Mackenzie’s engagingly weird 1971 British thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo stars David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer, Hamilton Dyce, Carolyn Seymour and Tony Haygarth. Giles Cooper’s Fifties British radio and TV play about a new […]

Apr, 01

Mr Moto Takes a Chance *** (1938, Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 8322

The fourth movie in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable Mr Moto casebook. Director Norman Foster’s 1938 crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Chance is the fourth in the enjoyable casebook series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as […]

Apr, 01

Mr Moto Takes a Vacation *** (1939, Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 8321

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 20th Century Fox black and white crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Vacation is the eighth and last release in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable casebook, as the oriental detective Mr Moto sets […]

Apr, 01

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