Derek Winnert

Sandokan the Great [Sandokan, la Tigre di Mompracem] ** (1963, Steve Reeves, Geneviève Grad, Andrea Bosic) – Classic Movie Review 7,966

Steve Reeves updates his sword-and-sandal spectaculars for the cheerful 1963 Italian historical adventure film Sandokan the Great about the pirate-prince Sandokan rebelling against the forces of Queen Victoria. US Mr World and Mr Universe Steve […]

Dec, 31 · in Reviews

The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] ** (1963, Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 7965

Director Luigi Capuano’s 1963 The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] is colourful Italian swashbuckling pirate adventure nonsense with Gordon Scott as the Venetian Doge’s son Manrico Venier, the heir to great […]

Dec, 31 · in Reviews

Tiger of the Seven Seas [La Tigre dei Sette Mare] ** (1962, Gianna Maria Canale, Anthony Steel, Maria Grazia Spina, Andrea Aureli, Carlo Ninchi, John Kitzmiller) – Classic Movie Review 7964

Gianna Maria Canale stars in director Luigi Capuano’s tolerably entertaining 1962 dubbed Italian feminist swashbuckling adventure movie Tiger of the Seven Seas [La Tigre dei Sette Mare] as Consuelo, a pirate captain’s daughter who inherits […]

Dec, 31
The Queen of the Pirates [La Venere dei Pirati] ** (1960, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel, Livio Lorenzon, Moira Orfei, Paul Muller) – Classic Movie Review 7963

The Queen of the Pirates [La Venere dei Pirati] ** (1960, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel, Livio Lorenzon, Moira Orfei, Paul Muller) – Classic Movie Review 7963

Director Mario Costo’s 1960 swashbuckling adventure The Queen of the Pirates [La Venere dei Pirati] [Venus der Piraten] is yet another dubbed Italian costume drama of the peplum film genre’s era of wild popularity, set in […]

Dec, 31

Queimada [Burn!] **** (1969, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori) – Classic Movie Review 7962

Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1968 Queimada [Burn!] [Battle of the Antilles] is part epic adventure-drama, part critical account of British colonialism. Pontecorvo’s sequel to his 1965 The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the British […]

Dec, 31

The Queen’s Guards ** (1961, Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 7961

Director Michael Powell handles this 1961 British film The Queen’s Guards as a dull, flag-waving tale of two generations of The Queen’s Grenadier Guards, old Captain Fellowes and young John Fellowes (Raymond Massey and Daniel […]

Dec, 30

Good Morning, Boys **** (1937, Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Lilli Palmer, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne) – Classic Movie Review 7960

Dr Benjamin Twist: ‘When all’s said and done, the boys can’t answer questions for which they don’t know the answers, can they?’ Director Marcel Varnel’s 1937 British treasure Good Morning, Boys stars the truly eccentric […]

Dec, 30

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