Derek Winnert

Twilight’s Last Gleaming **** (1977, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 8239

Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a gleaming, smart thriller, starring Burt Lancaster as Lawrence Dell, a maverick Air Force general who escapes from a military prison and captures a US missile […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

Twilight Zone: The Movie *** (1983, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, John Lithgow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan) – Classic Movie Review 8238

The 1983 horror and science fiction movie Twilight Zone: The Movie is a compendium of four weird stories in a homage to creator Rod Serling’s cult Fifties/ Sixties TV series The Twilight Zone (1959–1964), directed […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

The Kentucky Fried Movie *** (1977, Evan C Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby, Marilyn Joi, Saul Kahan, Marcy Goldman, Joe Medalis, George Lazenby, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 8237

Director John Landis’s 1977 madcap comedy The Kentucky Fried Movie is a bawdy, sometimes crude, mostly funny, occasionally hilarious series of sketches from the Kentucky Fried Theater comics from Madison in Wisconson. The Kentucky Fried […]

Mar, 13

A Man from Wyoming * (1930, Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 8236

‘Tender romance mid the thrills of fighting! No-Man’s land and the night life on the gay, war-time Riviera.’ The young Gary Cooper (already 29) stars in director Rowland V Lee’s 1930 romantic war drama A […]

Mar, 13

The Man from Utah ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr, Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8235

Young John Wayne sits tall in the saddle in director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Man from Utah, another average, low-budget Thirties Western from the Duke. In the story and screenplay by Lindsley Parsons, Wayne […]

Mar, 13

The Man from Planet X **** (1951, Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 8234

The 1951 film The Man from Planet X is a surprisingly intelligent, imaginative and entertaining sci-fi horror movie adventure, shot in only a week (or six working days) by the globetrotting, prolific B-movie director Edgar […]

Mar, 12

Ruthless **** (1948, Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers) – Classic Movie Review 8233

Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1948 flashbacks driven film noir Ruthless stars Zachary Scott as Ruthless, charismatic financier Horace Woodruff Vendig, who stops at nothing to get to the head of the heap. But he reckons […]

Mar, 12

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