Derek Winnert

The Gunfight at Dodge City *** (1959. Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Richard Anderson, Nancy Gates) – Classic Movie Review 8257

Director Joseph M Newman’s useful 1958 release The Gunfight at Dodge City stars Joel McCrea as Bat Masterson who becomes sheriff of Dodge City and is threatened by all and sundry usual Western suspects when […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

A Gunfight *** (1971, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 8256

Director Lamont Johnson’s oddball and appealing 1971 Western A Gunfight stars Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his second film acting performance following the 1961 crime drama Five Minutes to Live) as ageing shootists Will Tenneray […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

The Last American Hero **** (1973, Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 8255

The young Jeff Bridges is stupendous in director Lamont Johnson’s 1973 The Last American Hero, an entertaining, intelligent and touching biography of real-life top stock car racing driver Junior Johnson. In this slightly fictionalised version […]

Mar, 18

The Last Adventure [Les Aventuriers] *** (1967, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Joanna Shimkus) – Classic Movie Review 8,254

The 1967 French adventure film The Last Adventure [Les Aventuriers] stars Alain Delon as handsome Manu Borelli and Lino Ventura as craggy Roland Darbant, who search for sunken loot off the coast of Africa with […]

Mar, 17

Lost Command *** (1966, Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale, Grégoire Aslan, Jean Servais) – Classic Movie Review 8253

A fine international, though mostly French, cast all do their stirring stuff for the 1954 French-Algerian conflict in producer-director Mark Robson’s well-staged 1966 action-adventure film Lost Command, with a strong pro-peace message and dashes of romance. […]

Mar, 17

Once a Thief *** (1965, Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 8,252

The hard-boiled 1965 black and white crime thriller Once a Thief stars Alain Delon as a San Francisco ex-thief who wants to go straight but is dragged back into crime by his brother Walter (Jack […]

Mar, 17

Stranger on the Third Floor **** (1940, Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8251

The 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor is a classic film noir thriller where menace lurks in every shadow and stairway. Peter Lorre stars as the sinister Stranger, whom a reporter (John McGuire) suspects has […]

Mar, 17

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