Derek Winnert

The Gun Runners *** (1958, Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 8259

Don Siegel directs Audie Murphy in the 1958 black and white film noir crime drama The Gun Runners, the fourth version of Ernest Hemingway’s short story novel To Have and Have Not, following To Have […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

Gunfight at Comanche Creek ** (1963, Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, John Hubbard) – Classic Movie Review 8258

Director Frank McDonald’s 1964 Gunfight at Comanche Creek is a remake of the unspectacular George Montgomery Western Last of the Bad Men (1957), this time starring Audie Murphy as the good guy, agent Bob Gifford, […]

Mar, 18 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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