Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "spy"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "spy".

Innocent Bystanders ** (1972, Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 8501

Donald Pleasence and Dana Andrews play the heads of British and US intelligence, and Stanley Baker plays the top British spy-in-action, in director Peter Collinson’s 1972 Innocent Bystanders, a rather feeble secret agent thriller about […]

May, 26

The Killer Elite **** (1975, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Gig Young, Bo Hopkins, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 8405

James Caan said he made the 1975 American crime action thriller The Killer Elite only because his advisers told him to work with Sam Peckinpah, and he rated it a zero on a scale of […]

Apr, 27

The Ghost of St Michael’s **** (1941, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 8392

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]

Apr, 23

Birds Do It * (1966, Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O’Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8337

Director Andrew Marton’s 1966 film Birds Do It is a silly, mostly mirthless comedy with Soupy Sales starring as Melvin Byrd, a nuclear plant’s caretaker ionised in error so he can fly across Florida and […]

Apr, 06

Chu Chin Chow **** (1934, George Robey, Fritz Kortner, Anna May Wong, John Garrick, Pearl Argyle) – Classic Movie Review 8289

Director Walter Forde’s exuberantly entertaining 1934 British action adventure comedy musical Chu Chin Chow, a musical retelling of the Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves Arabian Nights tale, can still provide a lot of antique […]

Mar, 24

The House on 92nd Street **** (1945, William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 8226

The 1945 fact-based film noir spy thriller The House on 92nd Street was made with the help of the FBI. It tells the story about the US chase after a German spy ring in Washington […]

Mar, 11

Cairo *** (1942, Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen, Grant Mitchell, Lionel Atwill, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dooley Wilson, Dennis Hoey, Mona Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 8205

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]

Mar, 06

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.