Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "cabin"

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

The Spanish Cape Mystery *** (1935, Donald Cook, Helen Twelvetrees, Berton Churchill) – Classic Movie Review 9895

Director Lewis D Collins’s 1935 thriller The Spanish Cape Mystery is the first in the series of Ellery Queen films, in which the holidaying debonair New York supersleuth Ellery Queen (Donald Cook) foolishly falls for the […]

Jun, 11

Little Darlings *** (1980, Tatum O’Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, Matt Dillon, Maggie Blye) – Classic Movie Review 9280

Tomboy Angel (Kristy McNichol) and rich kid Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) – nicely contrasting 15-year-old girls – compete to be the first teenagers at a summer camp to lose their virginity, in director Ronald F Maxwell’s […]

Jan, 19

Dangerous Crossing *** (1953, Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Carl Betz, Max Showalter) – Classic Movie Review 8993

Director Joseph M Newman’s 1953 black and white film noir mystery thriller Dangerous Crossing stars Jeanne Crain as young bride Ruth Bowman, whose new husband (Carl Betz) mysteriously disappears on their honeymoon on a transatlantic […]

Oct, 18

Prophecy * (1979, Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 8521

‘She Lives. Don’t Move. Don’t Breathe. She Will Find You.’ Unfortunately, the green-horror crossover genre has never been particularly successful, and director John Frankenheimer’s 1979 killer bear monster movie Prophecy is no exception. Ecology and […]

May, 30

The Hanging Tree *** (1959, Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, Ben Piazza, George C Scott, Karl Swenson, Virginia Gregg, John Dierkes, King Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6824

Director Delmer Daves’s 1959 Western stars Gary Cooper as ‘Doc’ Frail, a Montana small town doctor who saves local small-time thief Rune (Ben Piazza) from a mob who want to hang him, but he demands the kid becomes […]

Mar, 19

Man of the Forest *** (1933, Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Noah Beery Sr) – Classic Movie Review 6438

The young Randolph Scott shines in director Henry Hathaway’s excellently plotted 1933 adventure movie, based on the Zane Grey novel. Scott plays Brett Dale, who overhears a plan by greedy Clint Beasley (Noah Beery Sr) to kidnap Jim Gayner (Harry Carey)’s daughter Alice […]

Dec, 20

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [Evil Dead II] *** (1987, Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks) – Classic Movie Review 5030

For his bigger-budget ( $3,600,000) horror sequel to the 1981 cult favourite video nasty original The Evil Dead, co-writer/ director Raimi gives his horror fans exactly what they want – another exuberant dose of blood, […]

Feb, 19

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.