Derek Winnert

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The Ambushers ** (1967, Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6375

Director Henry Levin’s 1967 movie is the third of the four Matt Helm spy spoof films, following the hits The Silencers and Murderers’ Row (1966). Only one man – Dean Martin’s fondly remembered Sixties top-secret […]

Dec, 08

The Astounding She-Monster * (1958, Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick) – Classic Movie Review 5012

‘A creature from beyond the stars. EVIL… BEAUTIFUL… DEADLY…!’ Producer- director Ronald [Ronnie] V Ashcroft’s incredibly cheap-looking 1958 sci-fi chiller is foolishly acted and totally trashy. No wonder it is cheap-looking, it cost only $18,000. […]

Feb, 06

The Flying Saucer * (1950, Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Virginia Hewitt) – Classic Movie Review 3759

‘Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror! ‘ In 1950, only a year after the world’s first Flying Saucer was supposedly sighted in the Washington hills, writer-producer-director Mikel Conrad came up with […]

May, 28

Invasion of the Saucer Men [Invasion of the Hell Creatures] ** (1957, Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton, Lyn Osborn, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 3,759

Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) has irresistible ingredients: a flying saucer landing in the woods, tiny aliens with giant heads and exposed brains, a creature run down by teens, a mobile alien severed hand, […]

May, 27

Stranger from Venus * (1954, Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond, Cyril Luckham) – Classic Movie Review 3755

Producer-director Burt Balaban’s amateurish independently made 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film about first contact with aliens stars a down-on-their-luck Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine. Neal plays Susan North, an American woman who crashes her car […]

May, 26

Earth Vs the Flying Saucers **½ (1956, Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 2,499

Warning! Take Cover! Flying Saucers Invade Our Planet! Director Fred F Sears’s 1956 sci-fi thriller film Earth Vs the Flying Saucers is an effective humans-against-the-aliens movie, with decent Ray Harryhausen effects. Warning! Take Cover! Flying […]

May, 19

This Island Earth **** (1955, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason) – Classic Movie Review 2,444

Director Joseph Newman’s 1955 movie This Island Earth is a memorable, huge fun Fifties sci-fi thriller with a sprightly yarn about benevolent aliens kidnapping earthling scientists to save their planet. The film is fondly remembered […]

May, 02

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