Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Gun Fury *** (1953, Rock Hudson, Donna Reed, Phil Carey, Roberta Haynes, Leo Gordon, Lee Marvin, Neville Brand) – Classic Movie Review 6688

‘A WOMAN WRONGED…A MAN TO AVENGE HER!… and he rode south to do it!’ Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 Western stars Rock Hudson as just married Ben Warren, who brings his new bride Jennifer Ballard (Donna […]

Feb, 14 · in Reviews

The Stranger Wore a Gun *** (1953, Randolph Scott, George Macready, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 6687

Randolph Scott – ‘greater than ever in 3D’ – stars as Jeff Travis, a law-abiding citizen who spies for Quantrill’s raiders during the Civil War and then flees to Arizona, where he is forced into a […]

Feb, 14 · in Reviews

Thunder Over the Plains ** (1953, Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw, Elisha Cook Jr, Henry Hull, Hugh Sanders, Lane Chandler, Fess Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6686

‘HIS WAS THE MOMENT HE HAD TO COUNT HIS BULLETS… because he couldn’t count on his friends!’ In Texas after the American Civil War, it is all happening to Randolph Scott’s fine, upstanding US Cavalry […]

Feb, 14

Talk Radio *** (1988, Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 6685

Eric Bogosian’s one-set play transfers admirably to the screen for this sinister, emotionally charged 1988 drama, thanks to co-writer/ director Oliver Stone’s compelling handling, the flashy camerawork by Robert Richardson and the high-calibre acting of […]

Feb, 14

Tall Man Riding *** (1955, Randolph Scott, Robert Barrat, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle) – Classic Movie Review 6684

The tall man is craggy, square-jawed Randolph Scott (6′ 2″), who stars as straight-shooting Larry Madden, who is embroiled in a vendetta with cattle baron Tuck Ordway (Robert Barrat), whose daughter Corinna (Dorothy Malone) he has […]

Feb, 13

Early Man ** (2018, voices of Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams, Tom Hiddleston, Timothy Spall, Nick Park, Miriam Margolyes, Rob Brydon) – Movie Review

Early Man is small and thin but perfectly formed. Nick Park’s slightly underwhelming Aardman animated feature Early Man is good natured and harmless, but its thin idea is stretched to near breaking point to fill an […]

Feb, 13

Tanganyika ** (1954, Van Heflin, Howard Duff, Ruth Roman, Jeff Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 6683

Director André De Toth [deToth]’s 1954 Technicolor movie Tanganyika is a moderate but fairly engaging action adventure film starring a capable quartet of interesting players in Van Heflin, Howard Duff, Ruth Roman and Jeff Morrow. […]

Feb, 12

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