Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "disaster movie"

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The Hurricane **** (1937, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 5,741

A wicked French colony Governor (Raymond Massey) and a typhoon strike the Polynesian Island of Manukura hard, in director John Ford’s rousing 1937 South Seas adventure movie The Hurricane, famed for its climactic special effects […]

Jul, 10

Airport 1975 *** (1974, Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Susan Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5427

‘Star-studded cast trapped in a plunging airplane… And only a death-defying rescue mission can save them!’ Director Jack Smight’s 1974 first sequel to Airport (1970) is preposterous and unintentionally funny but still quite exciting and enjoyable. […]

May, 10

Earthquake **** (1974, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Geneviève Bujold, Lorne Greene, Richard Roundtree, Lloyd Nolan, Marjoe Gortner, Victoria Principal, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 3431

Director Mark Robson’s epic 1974 disaster movie is preposterously entertaining with the right manly main star in Charlton Heston (as construction engineer Stuart Graff), an ambitious, costly production, tedious personal dramas and excellent Oscar-winning visual […]

Mar, 01

The Swarm * (1978, Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray) – Classic Movie Review 3099

The 1978 horror thriller The Swarm is a particularly silly disaster movie from the king of genre, producer-director Irwin Allen, that is a hoot to watch if you are in the right frame of mind. […]

Nov, 26

San Andreas *** (2015, Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Taken with a huge pinch of salt, San Andreas is quite a lot of old-style disaster movie fun, slickly done and fast moving. Dwayne Johnson’s a good hero and very pleasant company for a couple […]

May, 27

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