Derek Winnert

100 Rifles *** (1969, Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 7930

Director Tom Gries’s 1969 spaghetti Western 100 Rifles [One Hundred Rifles] stars Burt Reynolds as Native Indian revolutionary Yaqui Joe, an outlaw being pursued by an American lawman Lyedecker (Jim Brown). But then both of […]

Dec, 21 · in Reviews

Fuzz *** (1972, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner) – Classic Movie Review 7929

Director Richard A Colla’s rumbustious 1972 crime action comedy Fuzz is based on a novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) and stars Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner and Raquel Welch. As Boston […]

Dec, 20 · in Reviews

Run for the Sun *** (1956, Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck, Juan García) – Classic Movie Review 3521

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s 1956 adventure thriller Run for the Sun is the third version of Richard Connell’s prize-winning short story The Most Dangerous Game. Though it is one of the most anthologised stories of all time […]

Dec, 20

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown ** (1957, Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Fred Clark, Adolphe Menjou, Una Merkel) – Classic Movie Review 7928

Based on a novel by Sylvia Tate, director Norman Taurog’s 1957 crime comedy The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is an interesting but tasteless comedy version of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, in which Jane Russell plays […]

Dec, 20

The Revolt of Mamie Stover *** (1956, Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7927

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1956 CinemaScope and Deluxe Color drama The Revolt of Mamie Stover is based on the novel by William Bradford Huie and stars Jane Russell as the titular Mamie Stover, a busty young […]

Dec, 20

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians [Signore & signori] *** (1966, Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Gigi Ballista) – Classic Movie Review 7926

The estimable Virna Lisi gives an entertaining turn as Milena Zulian to give a lift to director Pietro Germi’s often unsubtle and overacted but sometimes sharp and amusing Italian La Ronde-style sex farce The Birds, […]

Dec, 20

A Man and a Woman [Un homme et une femme] **** (1966, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant) – Classic Movie Review 7,925

Director Claude Lelouch’s 1966 A Man and a Woman [Un Homme et une Femme] is the quintessential French Sixties chocolate box movie, starring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant as screenwriter Anne Gauthier (Aimée) and sports-car […]

Dec, 19

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