Derek Winnert

Breakout *** (1975, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North, Randy Quaid, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 7780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie Breakout is a strongly cast, decent action thriller and a good star vehicle for Charles Bronson, who plays Nick Colton, a pilot paid to rescue innocent patsy Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) […]

Nov, 12 · in Reviews

Bloodline * (1979, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irene Papas, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 7779

Audrey Hepburn was lured back to the screen after a three-year gap following Robin and Marian  1976) for director Terence Young’s thoroughly disappointing 1979 film version of Sidney Sheldon’s best-selling thriller Bloodline. She plays Elizabeth […]

Nov, 12 · in Reviews

Red Sun [Soleil rouge] *** (1971, Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, Capucine) – Classic Movie Review 7,778

With an alluring star cast of Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress and Capucine, the 1971 film Red Sun [Soleil rouge] is a robust and sometimes exciting eastern Western. Even with this alluring, […]

Nov, 12

The Chosen **** (1981, Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 7777

Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 1981 drama The Chosen is a first-rate film from Chaim Potok’s novel about two late teenage boys in Forties New York (it is 1944 in Brooklyn) – Hasidic Orthodox Jewish boy […]

Nov, 12

Slaughterhouse Rulez * (2018, Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Tom Rhys Harries, Michael Sheen, Simon Pegg, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review

Writer-director Crispian Mills’s misfiring British comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) starts out as a public school spoof and turns into a monster movie spoof half way as a sinkhole appears at a fracking site near the boarding school, unleashing scary […]

Nov, 11

The Valachi Papers *** (1972, Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 7776

Charles Bronson plays gangster and informer Joseph Valachi, who spills the beans on his real-life Mafia tale, in director Terence Young’s 1972 thriller The Valachi Papers [Joe Valachi, I Segreti di Cosa Nostra], a very […]

Nov, 11

The Stone Killer ** (1973, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin) – Classic Movie Review 7775

The Stone Killer (1973) is another violent, unattractive Charles Bronson – Michael Winner action thriller film, released a year before their box-office bonanza with Death Wish, this time with the stone-faced Bronson as an LA […]

Nov, 11

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