Derek Winnert

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Swamp Women ** (1956, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Marie Windsor, Mike Connors, Ed Nelson, Susan Cummings) – Classic Movie Review 3979

Director Roger Corman’s 1956 American adventure film noir crime film Swamp Women stars Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, and Marie Windsor, along with Mike Connors and Ed Nelson. Three women break jail and head for a […]

Jul, 05

Ruby Gentry **** (1952, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 3976

Director King Vidor’s 1952 all-action romantic drama is brilliantly kitsch and preposterous, just bursting with enjoyably over-heated Fifties-style intrigue, sex and violence. It is an unkind label, but it is a trash classic. Jennifer Jones stars […]

Jul, 05

Attack of the Giant Leeches * (1959, Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota, Tyler McVey, Jan Shepard ) – Classic Movie Review 3912

‘Fear will pierce your flesh… Until every nerve in your body… EXPLODES!’ Yes, but not all American International Pictures executive producer Roger Corman and producer Gene Corman’s movies have mitigating factors. Director Bernard Kowalski’s $70,000 1959 sci-fi horror […]

Jun, 29

Strangler of the Swamp *** (1946, Rosemary La Planche, Robert Barrat, Blake Edwards, Nolan Leary, Charles Middleton, Virginia Farmer, Frank Conlan, Effie Laird) – Classic Movie Review 3738

In German director Frank Wisbar [Franz Wysbar]’s spooky, atmospheric low-budget 1946 black and white horror movie, townspeople mourn the death of a number of swamp land men by strangulation. Some believe they have died as a result of their […]

May, 22

The Defiant Ones ****½ (1958, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3424

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classic liberal 1958 film is a simple, moral tale that works well thanks to the strong writing, the classy photography, the all-round excellent performances, the exciting chase sequences, the crafted production and […]

Feb, 28

The Mummy’s Curse ** (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, Peter Coe, Virginia Christine, Addison Richards, Kay Harding) – Classic Movie Review 3302

Director Leslie Goodwins serves up yet more Mummy mayhem, this time set in the swamps of Louisiana, in his acceptable 1944 Universal horror movie sequel, the fifth and last proper movie in the original Mummy saga […]

Jan, 29

Onibaba [The Hole] ***** (1964, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô) – Classic Movie Review 2809

Writer-director Kaneto Shindo’s ultra-thrilling, scary and imaginative 1964 Japanese horror story is a brilliant original. Shindo’s plot is about a 14th century Japanese mother and her daughter-in-law, grieving for their beloved son and husband, who […]

Aug, 13

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