Derek Winnert

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Return of the Seven ** (1966, Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Emilio Fernández) – Classic Movie Review 6576

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 movie brings Yul Brynner’s welcome return as hired gun Chris Adams in this acceptable but less magnificent sequel to perhaps everybody’s favourite Western, The Magnificent Seven (1960). The trouble is that […]

Jan, 18

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday [Inspector Hornleigh on Vacation] **** (1939, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers) – Classic Movie Review 6569

Following Inspector Hornleigh (1938), the second in the series of three films has a screenplay by comedy thriller experts Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (with J O C Orton), who affectionately and rightly called the series […]

Jan, 16

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! ** (1970, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 6479

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1970 sequel to the 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night is an ordinary, but mildly entertaining thriller, in which Sidney Poitier reprises his role as good cop Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs on […]

Dec, 27

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home *** (1995, Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, M Emmet Walsh, August Schellenberg) – Classic Movie Review 6422

Jason James Richter returns as Jesse, the appealing one-boy save-the-whale campaigner from Free Willy (1993), who this time sets off on a sailing trip with his argumentative half brother (Jon Tenny) and his foster parents […]

Dec, 17

The Ambushers ** (1967, Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6375

Director Henry Levin’s 1967 movie is the third of the four Matt Helm spy spoof films, following the hits The Silencers and Murderers’ Row (1966). Only one man – Dean Martin’s fondly remembered Sixties top-secret […]

Dec, 08

Murderers’ Row ** (1966, Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6374

There is some mild Sixties spy spoof fun to be had from director Henry Levin’s silly, vacuous second Matt Helm 1966 spy comedy-thriller caper (following the hit The Silencers). The splendidly insouciant, carefree, unconcerned and light-hearted Dean Martin […]

Dec, 08

Rooster Cogburn *** (1975, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 6271

John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]

Nov, 19

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