Derek Winnert

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Insomnia **** (1997, Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bjorn Floberg, Gisken Armand) – Classic Movie Review 6618

In co-writer/ director Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s distinguished, ultra-creepy 1997 Norwegian thriller, Stellan Skarsgård plays disgraced Swedish murder investigator cop Jonas Engström, who is sent to a Norwegian town with 24-hour daylight to investigate the death of […]

Jan, 29

Aloma of the South Seas *** (1941, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Philip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 6608

It’s just a sarong at twilight as the saronged lady Dorothy Lamour leads director Alfred Santell’s lavish but creaky 1941 reworking of Maurice Tourneur’s 1926 silent movie (with Gilda Gray, Percy Marmont and Warner Baxter), mixing adventure and […]

Jan, 26

Madhouse *** (1974, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Natasha Pyne, Linda Hayden, Barry Dennen) – Classic Movie Review 6592

Director Jim Clark’s larky 1974 Amicus Pictures horror picture and murder whodunit Madhouse has three top horror stars of the era in Vincent Price as the flamboyant Paul Toombes, Peter Cushing as the cool Herbert […]

Jan, 22

I Wake Up Screaming [Hot Spot] **** (1941, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Elisha Cook Jr, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 6586

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s winning 1941 20th Century Fox movie stars Victor Mature as star promoter Frankie Christopher, who is suspected when his protégée actress client Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis) is murdered. Then her sister […]

Jan, 21

Ulzana’s Raid **** (1972, Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Richard Jaeckel, Jorge Luke, Lloyd Bochner, Joaquin Martinez) – Classic Movie Review 6545

Robert Aldrich directs this very superior 1972 revenge Western with remarkable energy and his usual shameless morals. After years of sympathetic treatment by Hollywood, the Native Americans are brought back to be portrayed once again […]

Jan, 10

Sunset **** (1988, Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 6538

Writer-director Blake Edwards teasingly says at the end of his fanciful 1988 comedy crime, mystery thriller movie: ‘And this is how it really happened. Give or take a lie or two.’ The story starts with the […]

Jan, 09

Vamp *** (1986, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago) – Classic Movie Review 6520

Writer-director Richard Wenk’s 1986 contemporary vampire tale adds lashings of gory humour to a fair quota of chills. Chris Makepeace and Robert Rusler star as college kids who go to a bar and hire a […]

Jan, 04

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