Derek Winnert

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The Bespoke Overcoat ***** (1955, David Kossoff, Alfie Bass, Alf Dean, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 7863

The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]

Dec, 01

Back from the Dead ** (1957, Peggie Castle, Arthur Franz, Marsha Hunt, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 7856

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1957 black and white horror movie Back from the Dead is a preposterous shocker, but given a big lift with a spirited performance by Peggie Castle as Mandy Hazelton Anthony, a […]

Nov, 30

La Frusta e il Corpo [The Whip and the Body] [Night Is the Phantom] **** (1963, Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall) – 2018 Classic Movie Review 7824

Director Mario Bava’s visually stylish, sadomasochistic themed 1963 Gothic horror La Frusta e il Corpo [The Whip and the Body] [Night Is the Phantom] is set in an isolated castle on the Eastern European coast and stars Christopher Lee as Kurt Menliff, who […]

Nov, 23

Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] **** (1966, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali) – Classic Movie Review 7823

Director Mario Bava’s creepy, atmospheric and outstanding 1966 Italian Gothic horror film Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc and Fabienne Dali. Based on a story co-written by Bava, Romano Migliorini, and Roberto […]

Nov, 23

Carnival of Souls **** (1962, Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger) – Classic Movie Review 7821

Director Herk Harvey’s 1962 well-respected, much admired low-budget ($30,000) cult favourite horror movie Carnival of Souls stars Candace Hilligoss as pretty church organist Mary Henry, who escapes from a car crash not quite alive, is drawn […]

Nov, 22

La Tendre Ennemie [Tender Enemy] *** (1936, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana) – Classic Movie Review 7502

Co-writer/ producer/ director Max Ophüls’s diverting 1936 French film La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) tells the charming tale about three dead men, ghosts who encounter each other again in the afterlife and end up dissecting their […]

Aug, 26

Topper Returns **** (1941, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7203

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1941 black and white fantasy comedy film Topper Returns, based on the characters created by Thorne Smith, is the third and final entry in the series of films that began with the […]

Jun, 21

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