Derek Winnert

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The Showdown *** (1950, Wild Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 9,699

There is plenty of wild West power in Republic Pictures’ 1950 Western film The Showdown, a sturdy story of a former sheriff (Wild Bill Elliott), hunting his brother’s killer. There is plenty of wild Western […]

May, 01

The Reckoning *** (1970, Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Zena Walker, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9587

Director Jack Gold’s 1970 drama The Reckoning stars Nicol Williamson, who powerhouses his way through an unlikeable role as Michael Marler, a working-class Liverpool Irishman who greedily makes his way as a successful businessman in […]

Apr, 02

Framed *** (1975, Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley, Brock Peters, John Larch) – Classic Movie Review 9578

Director Phil Karlson’s 1975 action crime thriller Framed stars Joe Don Baker as innocent gambler Ron Lewis who is out after four years of jail for supposedly killing a town sheriff (he has killed the […]

Mar, 30

Black Magic ** (1949, Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Valentina Cortese) – Classic Movie Review 9441

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1949 black and white adventure movie Black Magic stars the old magician Orson Welles, who hams it up in an absurd swashbuckler as Cagliostro the magician-hypnotist-adventurer, who learns his skills from hypnotism […]

Feb, 28

Foxy Brown *** (1974, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 9419

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1974 nasty-toned, ultra-violent but vigorous early Seventies blaxploitation action thriller Foxy Brown stars the admirable Pam Grier in one of her most iconic performances as vigilante Foxy Brown on the vengeance trail […]

Feb, 23

Paid *** (1930, Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass) – Classic Movie Review 9400

Producer-director Sam Wood’s 1930 Paid [Within the Law] stars Joan Crawford as Mary Turner, who is wrongly jailed for three years as a youngster and comes out seeking justice against the men who put her […]

Feb, 18

Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] ** (1971, Joan Collins, James Booth, Ray Barrett, Sinéad Cusack, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9315

Joan Collins tops the bill as Carol Radford, in director Sidney Hayers’s unedifying but efficient country-set 1971 British revenge thriller Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] about two men visiting the recluse they suspect has […]

Jan, 29

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