Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Mr Kingstreet’s War *** (1971, John Saxon, Tippi Hedren, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 13,007

The involving 1971 South African wildlife wartime TV  film Mr Kingstreet’s War stars John Saxon, Tippi Hedren and Rossano Brazzi. Writer/ director Percival Rubens’s 1971 South African TV film Mr Kingstreet’s War stars John Saxon, […]

Jul, 26 · in Reviews

Black Book [Zwartboek] ***** (2006, Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn) – Classic Movie Review 13,006

Paul Verhoeven returns home to make the superb 2006 Dutch war drama thriller film Black Book [Zwartboek], starring Carice van Houten as a young Jewish singer who becomes a spy for the resistance in World […]

Jul, 25 · in Reviews
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with The Sea *** (1976, Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 13,005

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with The Sea *** (1976, Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 13,005

The 1976 British drama film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is an impressive oddity based on a novel by Yukio Mishima, and starring Sarah Miles and Kris Kristofferson.  Writer/ director Lewis […]

Jul, 25

Now Barabbas Was a Robber [Now Barabbas] *** (1949, Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray, William Hartnell, Kathleen Harrison, Leslie Dwyer, Richard Burton, Kenneth More, Alec Clunes) – Classic Movie Review 13,004

The conscientious 1949 British drama film Now Barabbas tells a series of stories about men in jail, and stars a vintage cast, including Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray, William Hartnell, Richard Burton […]

Jul, 24

Don’t Look in the Basement * (1973, Bill McGee, Annabelle Weenick, Rosie Holotik, Gene Ross) – Classic Movie Review 13,003

Bill McGhee, former Playboy model Rosie Holotik, and Annabelle Weenick star in director S F Brownrigg’s scrappy 1973 video nasty horror film Don’t Look in the Basement about homicidal patients at an insane asylum. ‘The Day […]

Jul, 23

The Dark Man *½ (1951, Maxwell Reed, Edward Underdown, Natasha Parry, Barbara Murray, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,002

Irish actor Maxwell Reed broods well as the ruthless killer in the 1951 British black and white film noir thriller film The Dark Man. ‘Set in one of Britain’s Forbidden Areas… this is one of […]

Jul, 22

The Dark Light *½ (1951, Albert Lieven, David Greene, Norman MacOwan, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 13,001

Vernon Sewell’s entirely adequate 1951 low-budget British black and white second feature thriller film The Dark Light stars Albert Lieven and David Greene in a tale of a lighthouse crew unwittingly rescuing a gang of […]

Jul, 22

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