Derek Winnert

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Cromwell *** (1970, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 9192

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1970 British historical drama Cromwell is an interesting version of how the 17th-century Puritan squire Oliver Cromwell became a member of the English Parliament, and then seized power as a dictator. The […]

Dec, 26

The Moonraker ***½ (1958, George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Gary Raymond, Peter Arne, John Le Mesurier) – Classic Movie Review 3428

Roll up, roll up for director David MacDonald’s British Technicolor action drama The Moonraker (1958), some tasty Fifties-style high adventure and low intrigue in 17th-century merry England, set in October 1651 after the Battle of […]

Feb, 29

The Scarlet Blade *** (1963, Oliver Reed, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Hedley, June Thorburn, Duncan Lamont, Michael Ripper, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 3279

Writer-director John Gilling’s bright and jolly 1963 Hammer Films period adventure movie The Scarlet Blade stars a dashing young Oliver Reed, who grabs his turn to swash an athletic buckle as the star of producer […]

Jan, 18

To Kill a King *** (2003, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams, Rupert Everett, James Bolam, Corin Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 2120

Tim Roth has a field day as historical film baddie Oliver Cromwell in this tale of the fall of King Charles I (Rupert Everett) at the end of the English Civil War in 1645. It […]

Jan, 26

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