Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "lighthouse"

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The Seventh Survivor *** (1941, Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,156

A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another […]

Jun, 02

The Light at the Edge of the World *** (1971, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar) – Classic Movie Review 9589

Director Kevin Billington’s 1971 pirate malarkey adventure The Light at the Edge of the World stars Kirk Douglas as a lighthouse keeper, Will Denton, who is locked in a battle royal with a ruthless pirate, […]

Apr, 02

The Lighthouse *** (2019, Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are both tremendous under very difficult circumstances in perfectly judged performances as lighthouse keepers Thomas Howard and Thomas Wake going crazy while living and working on a remote New England […]

Jan, 31

The Monster of Piedras Blancas ** (1959, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 8093

Director Irvin Berwick’s 1959 horror movie The Monster of Piedras Blancas stars Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis and John Harmon. In writer H Haile Chace’s screenplay, a newly widowed lighthouse keeper called Sturges (Harmon) puts out […]

Feb, 05

The Phantom Light *** (1935, Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer, Herbert Lomas) – Classic Movie Review 7957

In his minor 1935 early effort The Phantom Light, director Michael Powell injects a strong, haunting atmosphere into a jovial suspense comedy-thriller yarn set around a supposedly haunted Welsh lighthouse, whose keeper has earlier been […]

Dec, 29

The Light Between Oceans *** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Anthony Hayes) – Movie Review

Derek Cianfrance’s first film since his edgy epic crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) is a very different kind of movie, a classy old-style romantic drama about a World War One battle-scarred, world-weary lighthouse keeper, Tom […]

Oct, 20

Pete’s Dragon *** (1977, Sean Marshall, Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Jim Backus, Jeff Conaway) – Classic Movie Review 3712

Don Chaffey directs Walt Disney’s modest 1977 musical mix of animation and live action, in which big green-and-purple, dopey magical cartoon dragon Elliott (created by animator Don Bluth, voiced by Charlie Callas) saves the nine-year-old sweet orphan […]

May, 16

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