Derek Winnert

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The Cimarron Kid *** (1952, Audie Murphy, Beverly Tyler, James Best, Yvette Dugay, Hugh O’Brian, Noah Beery Jr, Rand Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 6489

Director Budd Boetticher’s solid 1952 Western stars Audie Murphy as Bill Doolin, aka The Cimarron Kid, who lands up behind bars after making one last ride in a train heist with the Dalton gang of Bob, Grat, Emmett […]

Dec, 29

The Man Who Could Cheat Death ** (1959, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee ) – Classic Movie Review 5567

Director Terence Fisher’s 1958 Hammer studios horror thriller is an attractively lurid and Technicolorful version of an old play by Barré Lyndon and 1945 film The Man in Half Moon Street about a mysteriously handsome […]

Jun, 09

Cat Ballou **** (1965, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin) – Classic Movie Review 2325

Director Elliot Silverstein’s likeable, raucously amusing 1965 spoof Western stars Jane Fonda as the titular Cat (Catherine) Ballou, a schoolmarm turned outlaw and Lee Marvin in dual roles as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn, the cinema’s most […]

Mar, 29

Dracula *** (1973, Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 1728

‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half renewed… the mouth was redder than ever for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and […]

Oct, 02

Carry On Up the Khyber **** (1968, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Roy Castle, Terry Scott, Angela Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1134

The 16th Carry On film from 1968 Carry On Up the Khyber is easily one of the finest, delivering a hilarious quota of great fun as the team take to India in the 1890s and […]

Apr, 22

Heaven’s Gate **** (1980, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 95

Directly supervised by director Michael Cimino, the 2013 Director’s Cut and restoration of the 1980 infamous western Heaven’s Gate proves a revelation. He’s removed the intermission card and music, and made some judicious scene trims, bringing it […]

Jul, 27

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