Derek Winnert

Il Grande Duello [The Big Showdown] [The Grand Duel] *** (1972, Lee Van Cleef, Alberto Dentice, Jess Hahn, Marc Mazza, Horst Frank) – Classic Movie Review 7814

Director Giancarlo Santi’s 1972 exciting, typically violent Spaghetti Western Il Grande Duello [The Big Showdown] [The Grand Duel] stars Lee Van Cleef as veteran gunfighter Sheriff Clayton, who takes a young hotshot called Philip Vermeer […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Il Grande Silenzio [The Big Silence] [The Great Silence] ***** (1968, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli) – Classic Movie Review 7,813

Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mute in Sergio Corbucci’s brilliant 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western Il Grande Silenzio – a suppressed masterpiece. Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mute in Sergio Corbucci’s brilliant 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

A Professional Gun [Il Mercenario] [The Mercenary] **** (1968, Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 7812

Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1968 A Professional Gun [Il Mercenario] [The Mercenary] is a notable spaghetti Western, with strong performances from Jack Palance and Franco Nero (as Ricciolo ‘Curly’ and Sergei Kowalski the Polish, the rival […]

Nov, 20

Deathtrap **** (1982, Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7811

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1982 hit Deathtrap is a hugely enjoyable film version of Ira Levin’s stage thriller, with Michael Caine as the has-been Broadway playwright Sidney Bruhl suffering from writer’s block who conceives one of his […]

Nov, 19

Child’s Play * (1972, James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 7810

The 1972 drama Child’s Play is the film version of a Broadway play written by Robert Marasco about rivalry and violence in an exclusive Catholic boys’ school. It is a rare misfire from director Sidney […]

Nov, 19

Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809

Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]

Nov, 19

City Streets **** (1931, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd, Wynne Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 7808

‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]

Nov, 19

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