Derek Winnert

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo] **** (1970, Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho) – Movie Review 8150

The ‘Italian Hitchcock’ Dario Argento’s first film as writer-director The Bird with the Crystal Plumage [L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo] (1970) is a dizzy, spinning web of outright shocks, audience manipulation, off-centre film trickery and […]

Feb, 19 · in Reviews

Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] ** (1971, Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8149

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1971 British mystery crime drama Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] stars Frank Finlay as Detective Chief Superintendent Velyan, who hunts for a serial rapist killer of young women in an English village. This […]

Feb, 19 · in Reviews

The Stuff *** (1985, Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Garrett Morris, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8148

Writer/ director Larry Cohen’s 1985 fantasy comedy The Stuff is an amusing send-up of Fifties sci-fi horror pics, with the engaging, funny performances from a talented cast compensating for the rather uneven writing and apparently […]

Feb, 18

Mystery Sea Raider ** (1940, Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 8147

‘SPY RING strikes at sea!’ Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1940 Paramount Pictures feature Mystery Sea Raider is a routine World War Two wartime flag-waving spy drama, with some good tension and effective romantic moments, but there […]

Feb, 18

Mystery Street **** (1950, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair) – Classic Movie Review 8146

Director John Sturges’s 1950 Mystery Street is a well-plotted, fascinating police procedural film noir crime thriller, with Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan and Betsy Blair starring. […]

Feb, 18

Fiend without a Face *** (1958, Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Terry Kilburn, Kim Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8145

‘New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends! …Taking form before your horrified eyes!’ Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1957 British-made, pretend-American black and white horror movie Fiend without a Face is rather fiendish, with a spooky climax, […]

Feb, 18

Horrors of the Black Museum ** (1959, Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 8,144

‘No woman can hold her tongue. They’re a vicious, unreliable breed!’ – Edmond Bancroft. Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1959 British horror movie Horrors of the Black Museum stars Michael Gough as crime writer Edmond Bancroft, who provides […]

Feb, 18

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