Derek Winnert

Female Jungle ** (1956, Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 7733

‘Thrills jolt with the burst of gunfire!’ Director Bruno VeSota’s 1956 film noir crime thriller Female Jungle stars Lawrence Tierney as Detective Sergeant Jack Stevens, a cop who investigates a blonde film star’s death after […]

Nov, 01 · in Reviews

The Oklahoma Woman *** (1956, Richard Denning, Peggie Castle, Cathy Downs, Mike Connors) – Classic Movie Review 7732

‘RIPPED BY RAW VIOLENCE!’ The Oklahoma Woman (1956) is the third of Roger Corman’s interesting series of four low-budget Fifties Westerns. Richard Denning stars the ex-convict gunslinger Steve Ward, who returns to Oklahoma after six […]

Oct, 31 · in Reviews

Apache Woman *** (1955, Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 7731

Cult director Roger Corman’s low-budget ($80,000) second feature Apache Woman (1955) is an interesting and capable if fairly tame (by his standards) Western, notable for his attempt to mix action with romance, an anti-racial prejudice […]

Oct, 31

Five Guns West *** (1955, John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors, Paul Birch) – Classic Movie Review 7730

‘Kiss for Kiss! Bullet for Bullet!’ Five Guns West (1955) is notable as Roger Corman’s debut film as director, and the first of his four Fifties Westerns. It stars John Lund, Dorothy Malone, Mike Connors […]

Oct, 30

Day the World Ended ** (1955, Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors) – Classic Movie Review 7729

Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1955 independently made black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction film Day the World Ended is his vision of the devastation that follows an atomic war that has destroyed human civilisation: ridiculous rubber-suited mutants with three eyes, four […]

Oct, 30

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues * (1955, Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen) – Classic Movie Review 7728

Producer-director Dan Milner’s independently made 1955 American black-and-white science fiction monster film The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues stars Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen and Philip Pine. It is a Z grade psychotronic cult film, and enjoyable on that laughable level, though the […]

Oct, 30

The Beast with a Million Eyes ** (1955, Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent, Leonard Tarver, Chester Conklin) – Classic Movie Review 7727

An extra-terrestrial beast with, in fact, two eyes that looks like a coffee percolator (it also sees through animals in its power) descends on the American South-West desert and gets various farmyard creatures, a blackbird, […]

Oct, 30

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