Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Black Windmill *** (1974, Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Janet Suzman, Joseph O’Conor, John Vernon, Joss Ackland, Denis Quilley, Clive Revill) – Classic Movie Review 6784

Michael Caine is typecast as Major John Tarrant, a British secret agent and fall guy for the real traitor in director Don Siegel’s creaky, uneven, run-of-the-mill 1974 British spy thriller that entertains lightly but does […]

Mar, 10 · in Reviews

Telefon ** (1977, Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 6783

Director Don Siegel’s far-fetched and feeble 1977 spy thriller, based on Walter Wager’s 1975 novel, stars Charles Bronson as a KGB agent called Major Grigori Borzov, who is sent to stop programmed Russian spies from blowing […]

Mar, 09 · in Reviews

St Ives *** (1976, Charles Bronson, Jacqueline Bisset, John Houseman, Harry Guardino, Maximilian Schell, Harris Yulin, Dana Elcar, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6782

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1976 mystery thriller stars Charles Bronson as ex-crime reporter and now thriller novel writer Raymond ‘Ray’ St Ives, who is drawn into a series of murders by scheming Abner Procane (John Houseman) and […]

Mar, 09

The Evil That Men Do * (1984, Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, José Ferrer, René Enriquez, John Glover, Raymond St Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 6781

Director J Lee Thompson’s competent but disreputable 1984 vengeance/ executioner action thriller stars weary old Charles Bronson, who is still doing his vigilante violence at the age of 62, this time as Holland, a retired hit […]

Mar, 09

Breakheart Pass ** (1975, Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 6780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie vehicle for Charles Bronson is Western murder mystery hokum based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, in which people are being mysteriously bumped off on a train with medical supplies […]

Mar, 09

The Gallant Hours *** (1960, James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 6779

Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]

Mar, 08

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story **** (2017, documentary) – Movie Review

Bombshell: A fascinating, ultimately sad story, hauntingly well told. Who knew it? The famous Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr was an under-appreciated genius inventor. Wow! Writer-director Alexandra Dean’s biographical, historical documentary tells a fascinating, moving, and ultimately sad […]

Mar, 08

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