Derek Winnert

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Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst [Battle Hell] *** (1957, Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 6543

Director Michael Anderson’s meticulously crafted 1957 true-story account of the crippled British warship HMS Amethyst’s escape through heavy fire from being trapped on Yangtse River by the Red Chinese in 1949 is based on the […]

Jan, 10

The Battle of the River Plate [Pursuit of the Graf Spee] *** (1956, John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Ian Hunter, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5506

One of writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s final films together is this sturdy if surprisingly routine 1956 Second World War movie about the British Royal Navy’s pursuit and scuttling of the German pocket battleship Graf […]

May, 26

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