Derek Winnert

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Undersea Girl * (1957, Mara Corday, Pat Conway, Dan Seymour, Florence Marly) – Classic Movie Review 4957

Mara Corday, Pat Conway and Dan Seymour star as a reporter, a US Navy investigator and a police lieutenant who join the hunt for loot stashed undersea in a scuttled vessel in director John Peyser’s […]

Jan, 28

One Million BC [Man and His Mate] *** (1940, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr, John Hubbard, Nigel De Brulier) – Classic Movie Review 4451

Directors Hal Roach and Hal Roach Jr’s daft but different 1940 Stone Age epic fantasy adventure stars Victor Mature, who seems ideally cast as Tumak, a dim-witted caveman struggling for survival. It was immensely popular […]

Oct, 03

World Without End *** (1956, Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Rod Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 3983

‘THE 26TH CENTURY! Sub-Human Monsters… Mammoth Tiger Spiders… Mole-Tunnel Cities… Futurific Women… in the Screen’s Mighty Science-Shocker!’ Writer-director Edward Bernds’s daft but enjoyable 1956 sci-fi movie World Without End tells the tale of a space […]

Jul, 05

Beast from Haunted Cave ** (1959, Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 3919

Monte Hellman made his film directorial debut with Beast from Haunted Cave (1959). It is shot in Deadwood, South Dakota, and Lead, South Dakota, for its mine scenes after the local Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives to […]

Jul, 02

Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] ***½ (1962, Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon) – Classic Movie Review 3640

‘An orgy of looting and lust. The day when civilisation came to an end!’ The 1962 Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] is the best of actor Ray Milland’s directing efforts, following A […]

May, 01

The Descent *** (2005 Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid) – Classic Movie Review 3438

When six daredevil women go caving in America’s Appalachian mountains, they are trapped by a rockfall and then attacked by blind Gollum-style cave creatures – ‘crawlers’ – hunting by smell and sound. Working with a […]

Mar, 02

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves *** (1944, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Kurt Katch, Frank Puglia, Andy Devine) – Classic Movie Review 3205

Universal Pictures studio’s lavish, Technicolor-full exotic wartime fairy tale is daft but pacey and jolly, and very popular in its day thanks to the allure of the Jon Hall-Maria Montez duo. It was meant to […]

Dec, 31

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