Derek Winnert

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The Sword of Monte Cristo ** (1951, George Montgomery, Rita Corday, Berry Kroeger) Classic Movie Review 10,984

‘Her sword… Her lips… Her heart… Brought all of France to her feet!’ Well that’s a tough act to live up to! Writer-director Maurice Geraghty’s 1951 film The Sword of Monte Cristo is a sub-standard […]

Mar, 03

The Golden Blade ** (1953, Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 10,096

Director Nathan Juran’s 1953 film The Golden Blade is a breezy and fun, but daft and not very bright Arabian adventure, with Rock Hudson looking embarrassed as the fearless hero, Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid, who […]

Jul, 27

Pirates ** (1986, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Richard Pearson, Roy Kinnear, Ferdy Mayne, Charlotte Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8852

Tess in 1979 was the final film directed by Roman Polanski for seven years until his 1986 swashbuckler pirate movie Pirates. Roman Polanski’s rollicking 1986 pirate romp Pirates boasts a jolly performance by Walter Matthau […]

Aug, 22

Beastmaster 3: The Eye of Braxus ** (1996, Marc Singer, Tony Todd, Keith Coulouris, David Warner, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8755

The royal child stolen at birth and named Dar, who has a strange fondness for ferrets and can talk to the beasts, is back in the hunky shape of Marc Singer for a third slice […]

Jul, 24

Ali Baba et les 40 Voleurs [Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves] *** (1954, Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche, Henri Vilbert) – Classic Movie Review 8674

Director Jacques Becker’s 1954 Eastmancolor French comedy fantasy romance film Ali Baba et les 40 Voleurs [Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves] stars lovely old Fernandel, who is inspired casting as Ali Baba. His rich oriental […]

Jul, 04

The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]

May, 31

The Kid Who Would Be King ** (2019, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) is a good-hearted but lame, tame and wilfully old-fashioned kids’ adventure movie, offering a fairly dull spin on the Arthurian legend. It just goes to show that, like […]

Feb, 23

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