Derek Winnert

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear **** (1991, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O J Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 8206

Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Cairo *** (1942, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen, Grant Mitchell, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dooley Wilson, Dennis Hoey, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 8205

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]

Mar, 06 · in Reviews

Wind Across the Everglades *** (1958, Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden) – Classic Movie Review 8204

‘NOTHING LIKE IT SINCE ‘GRAPES OF WRATH’. Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 romantic adventure drama Wind Across the Everglades is based on the story Across the Everglades by Budd Schulberg. It is made by Schulberg Productions, […]

Mar, 06

Cool Breeze ** (1972, Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher) – Classic Movie Review 8203

Writer-director Barry Pollack’s 1972 Cool Breeze is an interesting if ordinary blaxploitation thriller movie reworking (for the third time) of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with a predominately black cast headed by Jim Watkins […]

Mar, 06

The Badlanders *** (1958, Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado) – Classic Movie Review 8203

Director Delmer Daves’s 1958 The Badlanders is a tense, tough and taut Western remake of the classic 1950 heist movie The Asphalt Jungle, with Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine as Arizona crooks planning to outwit […]

Mar, 05

Cairo ** (1963, George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamamah, John Meillon, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 8,203

The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]

Mar, 05

The Naked Jungle *** (1954, Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 8202

Director Byron Haskin’s 1954 jeopardy action adventure thriller The Naked Jungle stars Eleanor Parker as mail-order bride Joanna Leiningen, who goes to live with her rich new cocoa plantation-owner husband Christopher (Heston) in the Amazon […]

Mar, 05

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