Derek Winnert

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Meteor ** (1979, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 9750

Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]

May, 11

The Red Dragon [Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon] ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong) – Classic Movie Review 9055

Director Phil Rosen’s 1945 thriller The Red Dragon [Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon] is a standard, conveyor-belt late Charlie Chan entry from his Monogram Pictures phase. Sidney Toler is back again as the oriental […]

Nov, 04

Twilight’s Last Gleaming **** (1977, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 8239

Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a gleaming, smart thriller, starring Burt Lancaster as Lawrence Dell, a maverick Air Force general who escapes from a military prison and captures a US missile […]

Mar, 13

Wrong Is Right [The Man with the Deadly Lens] *** (1982, Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Katharine Ross, Robert Conrad, G D Spradlin, John Saxon, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Webber, Hardy Kruger, Dean Stockwell, Ron Moody) – Classic Movie Review 6181

Writer/ co-producer/ director Richard Brooks goes for the idea of Dr Strangelove meets Network in his bold 1982 satirical-minded thriller based on the novel The Better Angels by Charles McCarry. Sean Connery stars as the […]

Nov, 02

The Peacemaker ***½ (1997, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Randall Batinkoff, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 998

Director Mimi Leder’s 1997 movie is an exciting, intelligent, well-crafted, thinking person’s action thriller. George Clooney and Nicole Kidman star as an American army colonel, Special Operations Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe, and a civilian […]

Mar, 26

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