Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Blood River ** (1991, Rick Schroder, Wilford Brimley, Adrienne Barbeau, John P Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 12,923

The 1991 film Blood River is a mild and moderate TV Western, starring Rick Schroder and Wilford Brimley, and based on a screenplay by John Carpenter written for John Wayne. Director Mel Damski’s 1991 Western […]

Jun, 08 · in Reviews

Bulldog Drummond’s Bride ** (1939, John Howard, Heather Angel, H B Warner, Reginald Denny, E E Clive, Elizabeth Patterson, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 12,922

The 1939 American crime comedy thriller film Bulldog Drummond’s Bride is the last in Paramount’s series of eight Bulldog Drummond capers, again starring John Howard and Heather Angel. Director James P Hogan’s 1939 American crime […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

The Passing of the Third Floor Back **** (1935, Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier) – Classic Movie Review 12,921

A Stranger works to redeem the inhabitants of a London boarding house, in Austrian director Berthold Viertel’s fascinating 1935 British drama film The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene […]

Jun, 06

Women of Twilight [Twilight Women] ** (1952, Freda Jackson, Rene Ray, Lois Maxwell, Laurence Harvey, Joan Dowling, Dora Bryan, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 12,920

The once controversial 1952 drama film Women of Twilight deals with ‘the social problem of the unmarried mother’ and is the first British-made film to be given an X certificate. ‘Today’s One-Mistake Girls!’ Director Gordon […]

Jun, 06

Out of Bounds * (1986, Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober, Glynn Turman, Raymond J Barry, Pepe Serna, Meat Loaf) – Classic Movie Review 12,919

Anthony Michael Hall stars as an innocent Iowa farm boy newly arrived in Los Angeles, who gets accidentally mixed up in murder and drugs, in Richard Tuggle’s contrived 1986 fish-out-of-water thriller film Out of Bounds. […]

Jun, 05

Way of a Gaucho ** (1952, Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 12,918

The good-looking 1952 Technicolor action adventure film Way of a Gaucho, starring Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, and Everett Sloane, is most notable for its location shooting in Argentina. ‘Surging with the […]

Jun, 05

What You Wish For **** (2023, Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez) – Classic Movie Review 12,917

Nicholas Tomnay’s cool and calculating 2023 thriller film What You Wish For is a black comedy little gem, with Nick Stahl excellent as Ryan, a down-on-his-luck chef with gambling debt problems, who flees to the […]

Jun, 04

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