Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "bounty hunter"

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Comanche Station **** (1960, Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins) –  Classic Movie Review 6433

Randolph Scott’s penultimate movie (and the last in his series of seven marvellous Westerns with director Budd Boetticher) is this excellent 1960 widescreen B-Western with an archetypal plot about a rancher loner Jefferson Cody (Scott) who […]

Dec, 19

The Shooting **** (1966, Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 6212

Director Monte Hellman’s gritty 1966 existential Western stars a grinning Jack Nicholson as a ‘violent, sadistic and merciless’ hired killer called Billy Spear, who comes up against bounty hunters Willett Gashade and Coley (Warren Oates […]

Nov, 08

The Bounty Hunter *** (2010, Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Gio Perez, Matt Malloy, Jason Sudeikis, Christine Baranski, Adam Rose) – Classic Movie Review 5530

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler prove an appealing team with just enough of the right chemistry in director Andy Tennant’s easy-going, good-natured 2010 romantic comedy action thriller. Aniston plays New York journalist Nicole Hurley, who skips […]

Jun, 01

Critters ** (1986, Dee Wallace Stone, Billy Green Bush, M Emmet Walsh, Scott Grimes, Billy Zane, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper, Ethan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 3990

Nasty little killer fur-ball aliens, fleeing from an inter-galactic jail pursued by two shape-shifting extra-terrestrial bounty hunters, invade Dee Wallace Stone’s Kansas farm in co-writer/ director Stephen Herek’s engagingly infantile 1986 Gremlins-style sci-fi horror comedy. […]

Jul, 07

The Hunter *** (1980, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 3530

Director Buzz Kulik’s 1980 movie is Steve McQueen’s final film, made while he was tragically dying of lung cancer, leading to his untimely death on November 7 1980 at the age of only 50. While not perfect, it is […]

Apr, 05

Midnight Run **** (1988, Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, John Ashton) – Classic Movie Review 3363

A fit and trim Robert De Niro storms back to a meaty starring part after a series of cameo roles in the mid-Eighties in director Martin Brest’s excellent 1988 mismatched-buddy chase thriller Midnight Run. It […]

Feb, 15

The Tin Star **** (1957, Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire) – Classic Movie Review 2051

Anthony Mann’s tense and taut 1957 Western stars Henry Fonda as cynical ex-sheriff turned bounty hunter ‘Morg’ Hickman and Anthony Perkins as the young sheriff. Director Anthony Mann’s tense and taut 1957 Western film The […]

Jan, 04

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