Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "elephant"

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Tarzan Goes to India ** (1962, Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon, Mark Dana) – Classic Movie Review 8066

Producer Sy Weintraub took over the Tarzan franchise from Sol Lesser with Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure in 1959 and Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), and gave it a bright new look in colour, reviving the series, and now gives it […]

Jan, 27

Tarzan’s New York Adventure *** (1942, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield) – Classic Movie Review 8046

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 Tarzan’s New York Adventure is the lively and exciting final outing for the much-loved screen partnership of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan together as Tarzan and Jane. In it, Tarzan and […]

Jan, 22

Hannibal Brooks *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Karin Baal, Helmuth Lohner) -Classic Movie Review 7770

Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]

Nov, 10

Smokey and the Bandit II *** (1980, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick) – Classic Movie Review 7559

Director Hal Needham’s 1980 action comedy sequel Smokey and the Bandit II (aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again) brings Burt Reynolds back from the 1977 hit original Smokey and the Bandit as truck driver […]

Sep, 11

The Meg * (2018, Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson) – Movie Review

Okay, so we are not expecting a remake of Citizen Kane any time soon from Jason Statham, but really The Meg’s pretty much the dregs. It says something about where we are today that this is the […]

Aug, 10

White Hunter Black Heart *** (1990, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell) – Classic Movie Review 6743

In his first star character role, aged 60, Clint Eastwood achieves a bravura sustained impersonation of wayward  legendary movie director John Huston who in 1950 sets out, distracted and obsessive, on a quest to shoot […]

Feb, 27

Elephant Walk ** (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 6418

Elizabeth Taylor enlivens director William Dieterle’s tepid, clichéd 1954 potboiler adventure movie about a romantic triangle on a Ceylon tea plantation, based on the novel by Robert Standish. Taylor plays lovely English rose Ruth Wiley, the new wife […]

Dec, 17

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