Derek Winnert

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Cat and Mouse *** (1958, Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 13,115

Paul Rotha’s suspenseful 1958  crime drama film Cat and Mouse stars Lee Patterson as an American army deserter who holds a young British woman (Ann Sears) hostage, believing she knows the location of a fortune […]

Sep, 11

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious ** (1965, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford) – Classic Movie Review 9945

The 1965 US-German co-production black and white comedy Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious is based on actor Robert Shaw’s novel The Hiding and is produced and directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of the […]

Jun, 21

The Last Hunt *** (1956, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Debra Paget, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn) – Classic Movie Review 8973

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s hard-hitting Western saga 1956 The Last Hunt stars Robert Taylor, cast effectively against type, as the sadistic buffalo-killer Charles ‘Charley’ Gilson in 1883 South Dakota. Stewart Granger plays his conscience-riddled buffalo hunter partner […]

Oct, 10

Oldboy [Oldeuboi] ***** (2003, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang) – Classic Movie Review 8694

Director Chan-wook Park’s horrific 2003 South Korean mystery action thriller Oldboy is still crazy and wildly imaginative after all these years. Dark as pitch, it is an incredible scare and thrill ride. It keeps its […]

Jul, 11

Ivanhoe **** (1952, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3654

Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]

May, 03

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