Derek Winnert

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The Bofors Gun ** (1968, Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 9728

Director Jack Gold’s 1968 British drama The Bofors Gun stars Nicol Williamson, Ian Holm, David Warner, John Thaw, Peter Vaughan, Barry Jackson, Richard O’Callaghan and Donald Gee. Fine acting saves the day for this glum […]

May, 07

Zulu Dawn ** (1979, Peter O’Toole, Burt Lancaster, John Mills, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Michael Jayston, Ronald Pickup, Bob Hoskins, Ronald Lacey, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8697

A fine cast is generally reliable if not particularly well used in director Douglas Hickox’s 1979 Zulu Dawn, a prequel to the 1964 Zulu, which focuses on the stubborn British commanders who lead their troops […]

Jul, 12
The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

Director Val Guest’s brutal and controversial British exploitation movie for Hammer Films – the 1958 The Camp on Blood Island – shows the Brits in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaya trying desperately […]

Jul, 08

Redcon-1 *** (2018, Oris Erhuero, Carlos Gallardo, Mark Strange) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Chee Keong Cheung’s low-budget British zombie apocalypse movie Redcon-1 (2018) revisits the 28 Days Later territory to considerable advantage. It has its rough edges but it is fast paced, action packed, entertaining and […]

Feb, 25

Zulu ***** (1964, Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine, James Booth, Nigel Green, Ulla Jacobsson) – Classic Movie Review 2,373

Cy Endfield’s thrillingly staged 1964 real-life historical action adventure movie Zulu is a much-loved, bona fide British classic of the era. Michael Caine is cast against type as an offhand aristocratic officer in the film […]

Apr, 10

Kajaki **** (2014, David Elliot, Mark Stanley, Scott Kyle, Benjamin O’Mahony, Bryan Parry) – Movie Review

A devastating, terrifying look at the appalling peril in which a platoon of young British soldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment find themselves at the Kajaki Dam, in southern Afghanistan, in 2006. A sniper patrol sets out […]

Nov, 26

Private’s Progress *** (1956, Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 1847

Co-writer/director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1956 vintage British comedy Private’s Progress stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and William Hartnell. The Boulting Brothers take the risk of sending up the then […]

Nov, 16

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