Derek Winnert

The Black Swan **** (1942, Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders, Anthony Quinn, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 7,324

The 1942 high-adventure movie The Black Swan is thrilling pirate malarkey, with the two handsome leads Tyrone Power and Maureen O’Hara giving attractive performances. Director Henry King’s 1942 high-adventure Technicolor swashbuckler movie The Black Swan is […]

Jul, 21 · in Reviews

Black Sunday *** (1977, Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Bekim Fehmiu, Fritz Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 7323

Director John Frankenheimer’s moderately enjoyable, though sometimes even nail-biting 1977 thriller Black Sunday is based on the novel by Thomas Harris about crazed Black September Arab terrorists (played by Marthe Keller, Bekim Fehmiu and Bruce […]

Jul, 21 · in Reviews

The Black Tent ** (1956, Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, André Morell, Anna Maria Sandri, Terence Sharkey) – Classic Movie Review 7322

Despite an intriguing premise, director Brian Desmond Hurst’s old-style 1956 British adventure yarn The Black Tent becomes a tedious, dated World War Two North Africa-set wartime action romance, remarkable mainly for André Morell’s energetic performance and […]

Jul, 21

Native Son *** (1986, Victor Love, Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Page, Oprah Winfrey, Carroll Baker) – Classic Movie Review 7321

Director Jerrold Freedman’s earnest and honorable 1986 drama Native Son is the second film version of Richard Wright’s powerful 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas (Victor Love), a poor, African American young man in Thirties Chicago who takes a […]

Jul, 21

Liar’s Moon ** (1982, Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Hoyt Axton, Christopher Connelly, Maggie Blye, Susan Tyrrell, Yvonne DeCarlo, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7320

Director David Fisher’s attractive 1982 romance Liar’s Moon is a slight though engaging soap opera starring Matt Dillon and Cindy Fisher as a poor boy (Dillon) and a wealthy girl (Fisher) who fall in love […]

Jul, 21

Checkpoint ** (1956, Anthony Steel, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice, Odile Versois, Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 7319

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1956 British crime thriller Checkpoint is a middling, but quick-moving and feisty motor racing adventure, with lovely Italian backgrounds. Stanley Baker provides a strong, genial presence as O’Donovan, an industrial spy sent […]

Jul, 21

Sea Wife ** (1957, Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant) – Classic Movie Review 7318

‘One of the Most Challenging Stories of Faith Ever Told!’ Well, that was the plan, but things did not quite turn out like that. Director Bob McNaught’s 1957 British romantic drama Sea Wife stars Richard […]

Jul, 20

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