Derek Winnert

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Day the World Ended ** (1955, Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors) – Classic Movie Review 7729

Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1955 independently made black-and-white post-apocalyptic science fiction film Day the World Ended is his vision of the devastation that follows an atomic war that has destroyed human civilisation: ridiculous rubber-suited mutants with three eyes, four […]

Oct, 30

Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] ***½ (1962, Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon) – Classic Movie Review 3640

‘An orgy of looting and lust. The day when civilisation came to an end!’ The 1962 Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] is the best of actor Ray Milland’s directing efforts, following A […]

May, 01

On the Beach **** (1959, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 3501

Stanley Kramer’s sombre 1959 drama film On the Beach is based on Nevil Shute’s novel depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, and stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Anthony Perkins. Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s sombre 1959 nuclear […]

Mar, 25

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ***** (1964, Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 209

Based on Peter George’s serious thriller novel Red Alert, Stanley Kubrick’s chillingly hilarious 1964 satire from the terrifying Sixties Cold War era seems as brilliant and relevant as ever. A doomsday black comedy about the […]

Sep, 01

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