Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Bodyguard **** (1948, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Elizabeth Risdon) – Classic Movie Review 7122

Director Richard O Fleischer’s 1948 Bodyguard is a tough, taut and tense little Forties B-movie thriller, very fine of its type. It is an outstanding and excellently handled film noir who-done-it. Lawrence Tierney stars as […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

The Great Impostor *** (1961, Tony Curtis, Raymond Massey, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur O’Connell, Gary Merrill, Frank Gorshin) – Classic Movie Review 7,121

Tony Curtis stars as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr, a cheat notorious for living in other people’s skins, in the wacky, revealing 1961 true-life comedy drama of false pretences The Great Impostor. Director Robert Mulligan’s wacky, […]

Jun, 05 · in Reviews

Boeing, Boeing *** (1965, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 7120

Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis star in Boeing, Boeing as Bernie Lawrence and Robert Reed, a couple of Sixties swingers who run a place in Paris overflowing with air stewardesses in John Rich’s funny 1965 […]

Jun, 05

The Bodyguard ** (1992, Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 7119

Director Mick Jackson’s hokey and unconvincing but highly popular 1992 romantic thriller The Bodyguard stars Kevin Costner as former US Secret Service agent Frank Farmer, who is hired by her manager as the bodyguard for pop […]

Jun, 05

Sagebrush Trail ** (1933, John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 7118

‘Romance rides in a drama of thundering hoofs and blazing guns!’ Director Armand Schaefer’s 1933 Western Sagebrush Trail stars the young John Wayne (aged 26) as John Brant, who  is sent to prison for a […]

Jun, 04

The Carey Treatment *** (1972, James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey, Dan O’Herlihy, Elizabeth Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7117

Oh doctor, I’m in trouble… Blake Edwards’s 1972 crime thriller The Carey Treatment got the MGM studio treatment. It was heavily cut and re-edited in post production, infuriating the director, who sued. Director Blake Edwards’s […]

Jun, 04

MacArthur *** (1977, Gregory Peck, Dan O’Herlihy, Ed Flanders, Robert Mandan, Nicolas Coster, Russell Johnson, Marj Dusay) – Classic Movie Review 7116

Director Joseph Sergent’s 1977 MacArthur (aka MacArthur, The Rebel General) provides a fine showcase for Gregory Peck to shine in a tour de force. He was Golden Globe nominated as Best Actor in a Motion Picture […]

Jun, 04

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