Derek Winnert

Raise the Titanic * (1980, Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Alec Guinness, Anne Archer, J D Cannon, M Emmet Walsh, Bo Brundin, Norman Bartold) – Classic Movie Review 8216

Director Jerry Jameson’s sluggish 1980 action adventure thriller Raise the Titanic was a titanic disaster for producer Lord Lew Grade that sank his production company ITC Films in the murky waters of the huge debt […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

The House Across the Bay *** (1940, George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 8215

Director Archie Mayo’s 1940 black and white thriller The House Across the Bay stars George Raft as club boss Steve Larwitt, who is sent to jail for 10 years in Alcatraz for income tax evasion […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

The Hot Spot *** (1990, Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Jerry Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 8214

‘There are only two things to do in this small town. One is watching TV.’ Director Dennis Hopper’s involving 1990 erotic violent neo noir thriller The Hot Spot stars a well-cast Don Johnson as Harry […]

Mar, 08

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion ** (1965, Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 8213

Director Andrew Marton’s 1965 children’s and family comedy adventure movie Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion is the pilot for the 89 episode Sixties TV show Daktari (1966–1969), which was given a cinema release. Marshall Thompson stars […]

Mar, 07

Bug Off! ** (2001, Steve Anderson, Briana Shipley, Andrew Fugate) – Classic Movie Review 8212

Aliens land on Earth disguised as a couple of human oldies in co-writer/ director T C Christensen’s predictable but quite funny 2001 family sci-fi comedy Bug Off!, mainly aimed for kids. Briana Shipley stars as […]

Mar, 07

Bug ** (1975, Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland) – Classic Movie Review 8211

‘They Look Like Rocks…Possess A High Intelligence…Have No Eyes…And Eat Ashes…They Travel In Your Car Exhaust…They Make Fire…They Kill.’ How promising and exciting is that? But maybe try to contain your excitement a little. Director […]

Mar, 07

The Iron Petticoat ** (1956, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Noelle Middleton, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 8,210

The bizarre and unexpected star teaming of Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn fails to inject many laughs into director Ralph Thomas’s good-natured but slack Ninotchka-like 1956 comedy film The Iron Petticoat. Alas, the bizarre and […]

Mar, 07

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