Derek Winnert

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A Man Could Get Killed *** (1966, James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Tony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Roland Culver, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 9551

James Garner gives an engaging lightweight turn as the lead character William Beddoes, an American businessman abroad on a work trip in Portugal, who gets confused with a British spy on the trail of lost diamonds, […]

Mar, 23

When Eight Bells Toll ** (1971, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Corin Redgrave, Nathalie Delon, Ferdy Mayne, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 6256

Director Etienne Perier’s 1971 British adventure is a goodish Boy’s Own action thriller, taken from an Alistair MacLean novel, in which an excellent cast, boats and gold bullion figure against a backdrop of eye-catching Scottish […]

Nov, 15

Deadlier than the Male ** (1967, Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Nigel Green, Suzanna Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 5260

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1967 British thriller Deadlier than the Male is a rather desperate attempt to bring classic author Sapper’s hero Bulldog Drummond alive and kicking into the swinging Sixties. Nigel Green plays criminal mastermind […]

Apr, 06

The Deadly Affair ***** (1966, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews, Harriet Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 2113

Producer-director Sidney Lumet’s important, serious-minded 1966 spy thriller from John le Carré’s Call for the Dead is, as it should be, chilling, dour and downbeat, but rivetingly compelling. James Mason plays le Carré’s famous British […]

Jan, 25

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ***** (1965, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker, Peter Van Eyck) – Classic Movie Review 2,112

Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 British spy film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is based on the 1963 novel by John le Carré, and stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner.  Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating, […]

Jan, 25

From Russia with Love ***** (1963, Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Eunice Gayson, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn) – Classic Movie Review 402

‘Meet James Bond. His new incredible women. His new incredible enemies. His new incredible adventures.’ Following the huge success of Dr No in 1962, the second 007 spy film From Russia with Love is more […]

Nov, 14

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