Derek Winnert

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Cast a Giant Shadow *** (1966, Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 7139

Cast a Giant Shadow *** (1966, Kirk Douglas, Senta Berger, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 7139

Ted Berkman’s first book Cast a Giant Shadow is about ‘Mickey Marcus’, a real-life Jewish-American West Point graduate who commanded units of the fledgling Israeli Defence Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It makes challenging source material for any film maker. Writer-producer-director […]

Jun, 09

Harum Scarum * (1965, Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries, Michael Ansara) – Classic Movie Review 6233

Director Gene Nelson’s 1965 comedy musical is a ridiculous Elvis Presley vehicle, in which he plays Johnny Tyrone, an action movie star kidnapped by Arabs on the way to his new film’s Middle East premiere […]

Nov, 12

Half Moon Street ** (1986, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 5546

Co-writer/ director Bob Swaim’s creaky old 1986 erotic thriller is intriguing but often quite tedious, straining the undeniable strong appeal of Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine, though it just about stays on the rails through […]

Jun, 04

Munich **** (2005, Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie-Josée Croze) – Classic Movie Review 5053

‘The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.’ Director Steven Spielberg’s dark, tense and sombre 2005 historical political thriller tells the […]

Feb, 24

Hidaldo ***½ (2004, Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 4164

Viggo Mortensen stars in his first post-Lord of the Rings movie as 1890s real-life Pony Express cowboy courier Frank T Hopkins, who takes his mustang Hidaldo to the Arabian Desert to compete in a big-prize […]

Aug, 13

The Lost Patrol **** (1934, Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J M Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3893

John Ford’s 1934 wartime adventure film tells a still stirring classic tale of a World War One British army patrol of a dozen soldiers lost in the Mesopotamian desert and facing constant sniper attacks from unseen […]

Jun, 20

Saadia *** (1953, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Wanda Rotha) – Classic Movie Review 3495

Modern medicine meets its match in traditional Moroccan magic when the French doctor Henrik (Mel Ferrer) falls for a wild, strange local Arab girl called Saadia (Rita Gam) whom he saves from sickness and the […]

Mar, 23

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