Derek Winnert

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Bagdad Café **** (1987, Marianne Sägebrecht, Jack Palance, C C H Pounder, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg) – Classic Movie Review 11,536

Director Percy Adlon’s 1987 English-language West German comedy drama Bagdad Café [Out of Rosenheim] stars the unlikely, larger-than-life German sex bomb Marianne Sägebrecht as Jasmin Münchgstettner, a hefty tourist from from Rosenheim, Bavaria, who leaves her […]

Aug, 30

Calling Philo Vance ** (1940, James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill, Edward Brophy) – Classic Movie Review 11,307

Warner Bros’ 1940 mystery comedy crime thriller Calling Philo Vance stars British stage actor James Stephenson, who takes over as S S Van Dine’s dilettante detective hero Philo Vance for one film only. ‘Rich Inventor […]

Jun, 14

Das Boot ***** (1981, Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann) – Classic Movie Review 10,703

Writer-director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 German World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot [The Boat] is based on the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim and was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. […]

Dec, 25

We Were One Man [Nous Etions Un Seule Homme] **** (1979, Serge Avedikian, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Lucien Guérin) – Classic Movie Review 9963

Director Philippe Vallois’s splendid, heart-rending 1979 French gay movie We Were One Man [Nous Etions Un Seule Homme] is really subtle and special. In the autumn of 1943, in World War Two, Guy Rouveron (Serge […]

Jun, 26

Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] * (1982, Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Ingrid Pitt, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9579

Director Ian Sharp’s 1982 gung-ho British action thriller Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] (1982) is a British SAS (Special Air Service) adventure yarn about tough guys storming in to the American Embassy in London […]

Mar, 31

Albert RN [Break to Freedom] **** (1953, Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9159

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 Albert RN [Break to Freedom] is a deservedly famous British Fifties World War Two prisoner-of-war camp movie, with notable stiff-upper-lipped acting, in which the true Brits, fed up with escapes that […]

Dec, 15

Driven ** (2001, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 8876

Sylvester Stallone is in low gear for director Renny Harlin’s pounding 2001 motor-race movie Driven, in which a thumping rock score battles the roar of Indy car engines as drivers try to ram each other […]

Sep, 01

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