Derek Winnert

Tarzan and the Great River ** (1967, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8076

Tarzan and the Great River (1967) is directed briskly and very competently by Robert Day. It is the penultimate of the five Tarzan movies he made in the Sixties. The great river is the Amazon […]

Jan, 30 · in Reviews

Tarzan and the Valley of Gold * (1966, Mike Henry, David Opatoshu, Manuel Padilla Jr, Nancy Kovack) – Classic Movie Review 8075

Mike Henry takes over from Jock Mahoney as the 14th Tarzan, who returns to the jungle to fight with a gun instead of his fists, in Robert Day’s late entry in the series, the below-par […]

Jan, 30 · in Reviews

The Touch [Beröringen] ** (1971, Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 8074

Writer/ producer/ director Ingmar Bergman makes his first film in English, the 1971 The Touch, and casts an American star. A mistake! Super though Elliott Gould usually is, he at a loss in Ingmar Bergmanland […]

Jan, 29

Tarzan’s Three Challenges *** (1963, Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Ricky Der, Earl Cameron, Tsu Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 8073

Director Robert Day’s 1963 Tarzan’s Three Challenges is set in Thailand, with the change of locale refreshing the franchise. Jock Mahoney stars as a globe-trotting, trouble-shooting Tarzan, travelling by plane rather than vine, on a […]

Jan, 29

Bergman: A Year in a Life [Bergman – ett år, ett liv] **** (2018, Ingmar Bergman) – Movie Review

Director Jane Magnusson’s paints a vivid warts and all portrait of the world cinema and theatre artist Ingmar Bergman in her stupendous documentary Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018), a magnificent film buff’s paradise, […]

Jan, 29

Q Planes [Clouds Over Europe] **** (1939, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, George Merritt, George Curzon) -Classic Movie Review 8,072

Directors Tim Whelan and Arthur B Woods’s 1939 British black and white spy comedy thriller film Q Planes [Clouds Over Europe] is stylish, pacy vintage entertainment from the Alexander Korda London Films studios empire, with […]

Jan, 28

Q – The Winged Serpent [Q] **** (1982, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 8071

Writer-director Larry Cohen’s 1982 Q – The Winged Serpent [or just plain Q] is a hugely enjoyable, if raggedly made, cult horror thriller, often imaginatively written and directed. It is by turns scary, funny and […]

Jan, 28

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