Derek Winnert

The Day of the Triffids *** (1963, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7516

Director Steve Sekely’s 1962 British horror movie The Day of the Triffids is a disappointing but still fun and endearing version of John Wyndham’s extremely fine classic chiller novel about the meteor showers that blind […]

Aug, 30 · in Reviews

The Valdez Horses [Valdez, il mezzosangue] [Chino] *** (1973, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 7514

Screen tough-guy Charles Bronson and his wife Jill Ireland star in director John Sturges’s unusual, entertaining 1973 Spanish-shot Spaghetti Western about a loner mixed-race Indian American horse breeder rancher called Chino Valdez (Bronson) who defends his horse […]

Aug, 30 · in Reviews

Day of the Outlaw *** (1959, Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson, Nehemiah Persoff) – Classic Movie Review 7515

The 1959 Western film Day of the Outlaw stars Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise and Venetia Stevenson. It is directed by Andre DeToth, making his final Western. Philip Yordan called his script ‘one of […]

Aug, 30

Kalifornia *** (1993, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7513

Director Dominic Sena’s nasty and upsetting 1993 psycho-thriller movie Kalifornia is hopefully the last word on serial killers. Clever though it may be, it is a thoroughly dislikeable and unpleasant piece of work. It turned out, […]

Aug, 29

Too Young to Die? *** (1989, Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, Michael Tucker, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7512

Young Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt show a lot of class and charisma in director Robert Markowitz’s shocking 1989 true-story drama. It is written by David Hill and George Rubino, based on a fact-based story by David […]

Aug, 29

Cutting Class ** (1989, Donovan Leitch Jr, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Martin Mull, Brenda James) – Classic Movie Review 7511

As you can easily gather from the punning title of director Rospo Pallenberg’s 1989 whodunit teen horror movie Cutting Class, a knife-killer is cutting a swathe through the high school student body. The goodish cast […]

Aug, 29

Valley of the Giants ** (1938, Wayne Morris, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale Sr, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 7510

  Director William Keighley’s 1938 Warner Bros adventure Valley of the Giants stars Wayne Morris and Charles Bickford as lumberjacks Bill Cardigan and Howard Fallon who battle over California’s Redwood trees, when Easterner wood thieves move in […]

Aug, 29

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