Derek Winnert

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Tora! Tora! Tora! *** (1970, Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Edward Andrews, Leon Ames, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8412

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! is a huge-budget wartime disaster movie that re-creates the whole story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday  7 December 1941, as US code breakers work […]

Apr, 29

In Harm’s Way *** (1965, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tyron, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda, Brandon de Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5922

Director Otto Preminger’s bumpy, but ambitious and sometimes exciting big-name 1965 naval drama set against a background of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service’s sudden surprise military attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the […]

Aug, 16

Invisible Agent **½ (1942, Jon Hall, Ilona Massey, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, J Edward Bromberg) – Classic Movie Review 4903

Director Edwin L Marin’s daft but engaging 1942 Sci-Fi thriller stars Jon Hall as the original Invisible Man’s grandson Frank Raymond, who uses his secret formula and is injected with a chemical that makes him […]

Jan, 17

Air Force **** (1943, John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, John Ridgley, George Tobias, James Brown, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3172

Director Howard Hawks’s extremely well made and rousing 1943 patriotic wartime flag-waving drama about the American crew of an Air Force Boeing B17 bomber named the Mary Ann on a Far East mission in 1941 […]

Dec, 19

1941 **** (1979, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,941

Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]

Dec, 10

Pearl Harbor (2001, Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Film Review 1142

After its $5million launch party, 2001’s most hyped movie and, at £135million, the most expensive film of all time at the time, is now exploding all over a screen near you. Director Michael Bay’s epic […]

Apr, 23

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