Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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A Town Called Bastard [A Town Called Hell] **½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 6345

Director Robert Parrish’s cold-blooded, crudely made and excessively violent 1971 Spaghetti Western (or paella Western as it is filmed in Spain), with its main assets in the dependable cast – especially Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, […]

Dec, 02

White Cargo *** (1942, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, Frank Morgan, Bramwell Fletcher, Richard Ainley, Reginald Owen, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6299

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 MGM film is a daft, but endearingly simple-minded old-style romantic adventure drama movie of love-hate triangle goings-on in the jungle, with Leon Gordon adapting his own play from 1923. Walter Pidgeon stars […]

Nov, 24

The Business of Strangers *** (2001, Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller) – Classic Movie Review 6287

‘Everyone eats shit. It’s just a question of degrees.’ – Julie. Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles play Julie and Paula, business women of very different ages and backgrounds who meet up at an airport motel, bond over […]

Nov, 22

Fear Is the Key *** (1972, Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ray McAnally, Ben Kingsley) – Classic Movie Review 6,257

Barry Newman stars in Fear Is the Key as the hard-bitten adventurer John Talbot, who sets about plotting an elaborate scheme to avenge the deaths of his wife and child in a plane crash. Alistair […]

Nov, 15

The Shooting **** (1966, Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 6,212

Monte Hellman’s gritty 1966 existential Western film The Shooting stars a grinning Jack Nicholson as a merciless hired killer who comes up against bounty hunters Willett Gashade and Coley (Warren Oates and Will Hutchins). Director […]

Nov, 08

Fog Island *** (1945, George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 6133

Director Terry O Morse’s lusty, moderately engaging 1945 Agatha Christie-style revenge horror thriller stars George Zucco as Leo Grainger, an inventor ex-convict who summons those business associates he thinks have maliciously caused his troubles to a […]

Oct, 24

Dead Men Walk *** (1943, George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Dwight Frye, Nedrick Young) – Classic Movie Review 6132

Ah, a dead man returns for vengeance, excellent! George Zucco is on good form and is great fun in two roles as the vampire Elwyn Clayton, who comes back to life to kill his doctor […]

Oct, 23

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