Derek Winnert

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Jubilee **** (1978, Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Ian Charleson, Karl Johnson, Adam Ant, Neil Kennedy, Jack Birkett, Jayne County, Richard O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 4989

Co-writer/ director Derek Jarman’s amazing 1978 punk-rock anti-celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee is an original, outrageous, clever report of the state of the British nation in 1977. Jubilee was always a rousing, eye-opening movie, […]

Feb, 12

The Offence **** (1972, Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen, Vivien Merchant, Derek Newark) – Classic Movie Review 5010

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1972 British thriller is extremely powerful stuff with a riveting performance from Sean Connery, leaving James Bond behind as Detective Sergeant Johnson, a half-crazed cop who metes out violently rough treatment to […]

Feb, 06

Undertow *** (1949, Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow, Bruce Bennett, Rock Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 4962

William Castle’s 1949 B-movie gangland tale Undertow is good, sturdy film noir crime thriller starring Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow. Rock Hudson has a small role as a detective. ‘Every bullet […]

Jan, 29

Teenage Caveman * (1958, Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Frank DeKova) – Classic Movie Review 4954

A well-groomed young Robert Vaughn looks out of place as a Teenage Caveman in producer-director Roger Corman’s cheap-looking (on a $70,000 budget), quickly made (in two days apparently!) 1958 black-and-white science fiction/ horror/ adventure movie set in a […]

Jan, 28

Throw Momma from the Train **** (1987, Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew, Annie Ross, Rob Reiner, Bruce Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 4935

Director/ star Danny DeVito’s gleefully entertaining 1987 directorial feature film debut is yet another raid on the work of Alfred Hitchcock. This time it is a bright and breezy black comedy about a student in […]

Jan, 25

Murder by Decree **** (1979, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, John Gielgud, Donald Sutherland, Frank Finlay, Geneviève Bujold) – Classic Movie Review 4915

Christopher Plummer and James Mason ooze sheer smooth charisma as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who investigate Jack the Ripper’s grisly murders of Whitechapel prostitutes and uncover a web of corruption, in director Bob Clark’s […]

Jan, 21

Jack the Ripper *** (1959, Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon, John le Mesurier, George Rose) – Classic Movie Review 4895

Director Robert S Baker’s gloomy 1959 British horror thriller was first released with an X certificate in Britain, though this modest but reasonably effective account of the notorious London East End murders gets most of […]

Jan, 15

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