Derek Winnert

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Sherlock Holmes **** (1916, William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain, Edward Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 5816

William Gillette (July 24, 1853 – April 29, 1937) gives the defining and definitive performance in the role for which he is best remembered – playing Sherlock Holmes – in director Arthur Berthelet’s 1916 silent film. It is […]

Jul, 27

Chamber of Horrors *** (1966, Patrick O’Neal, Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker) – Classic Movie Review 5796

The lurid 1966 period black comedy horror Chamber of Horrors was made for TV but then considered too gruesome for the home audience of the day. Director Hy Averback’s lurid, tongue-in-cheek 1966 period black comedy […]

Jul, 22

Death Rides a Horse [Da uomo a uomo] **** (1967, Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Luigi Pistilli, Anthony Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 5723

John Phillip Law is well remembered for his role as gunfighter Bill Meceita in the Spaghetti Western Death Rides a Horse (1967) with Lee Van Cleef. Co-writer/ director Giulio Petroni’s strong, well regarded 1967 run-of-the-range […]

Jul, 07

Porky’s ** (1981, Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Kim Cattrall, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 5650

Writer-director Bob Clark’s irrepressibly, joyfully vulgar and smutty 1981 Canadian coming-of-age sex comedy Porky’s hit the jackpot, following in the wake of Animal House (1978). It cost only $5 million and earned $106 million at […]

Jun, 21

The Man They Could Not Hang ***½ (1939, Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox) – Classic Movie Review 5630 

Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 horror movie finds Boris Karloff playing a crazed scientist again, this time Dr Henryk Savaard, who is accused of and executed for the murder of a student helping him in an […]

Jun, 18

The Invisible Woman *** (1940, Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 5,624

Universal Pictures’ amusingly silly 1941 sci-fi horror comedy The Invisible Woman stars John Barrymore as mad professor Gibbs, who invents an invisibility machine and makes a model girl (Virginia Bruce) invisible to settle a few […]

Jun, 17

The Invisible Man’s Revenge *** (1944, Jon Hall, Leon Errol, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 5622

‘All NEW! All Thrills!’ Universal’s third Invisible Man movie follows James Whale’s The Invisible Man (1933) with Claude Rains and Joe May’s The Invisible Man Returns (1940) with Vincent Price. There was also The Invisible Woman (1940) […]

Jun, 17

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