Derek Winnert

Action of the Tiger ** (1957, Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo, Anthony Dawson, José Nieto, Helen Haye, Anna Gerbern, Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 8140

Director Terence Young’s busy and capably handled but cardboard 1957 action adventure Action of the Tiger stars Van Johnson as Carson, a manly American contraband runner and mercenary hired by glamorous blonde French woman Tracy […]

Feb, 17 · in Reviews

On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] *** (1961, Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White, Kathleen Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8139

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1961 On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] is an enjoyably fun and fairly smart British black and white World War Two wartime farce, made out of its time at the start of the Sixties. […]

Feb, 17 · in Reviews

Happy Death Day 2U * (2019, Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Suraj Sharma, Sarah Yarkin, Rachel Matthews, Steve Zissis) – Movie Review

You can try to explain the New Killer, the Big Secret, and every other Big Twist in the 2019 horror thriller sequel Happy Death Day 2U, but you can’t. The elaborate plot simply makes no […]

Feb, 17

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days *** (1979, William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 8138

Likeable young stars Tom Berenger (as Butch Cassidy) and William Katt (as the Sundance Kid) are cast as near lookalikes for their predecessors Paul Newman and Robert Redford in director Richard Lester’s 1979 Butch and […]

Feb, 16

At Long Last Love ** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, John Hillerman, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 8137

With the world at his feet after the brilliant The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon, writer-producer-director Peter Bogdanovich wanted to pay homage to the Thirties Hollywood heyday musical, and Fred Astaire […]

Feb, 15

At Gunpoint *** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8136

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1955 Western for Allied Artists Pictures, At Gunpoint [Gunpoint], stars Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone, who give strong, intense portrayals. This handsomely mounted Western boasts a well-trodden plot about an upright, peaceful […]

Feb, 15

Guns at Batasi **** (1964, Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins, John Leyton, Cecil Parker, Mia Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 8135

Director John Guillermin’s fascinating 1964 African-set adventure movie Guns at Batasi, with a theme about the passing of British colonialism, is greatly invigorated by stiff-lipped performances by Richard Attenborough, Flora Robson, Jack Hawkins and Cecil […]

Feb, 15

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