Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "escape"

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I Died a Thousand Times *** (1955, Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr, Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 6443

An iconic Fifties cast adds huge allure to the intriguing 1955 cult crime thriller I Died a Thousand Times, the second remake of High Sierra, a film noir shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Director Stuart […]

Dec, 20

Fanfan La Tulipe [Fan-Fan the Tulip] **** (1952, Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand) – Classic Movie Review 6391

Director Christian-Jacque’s sunny, sweet-natured French 1952 swashbuckling romantic comedy adventure stars the dashingly handsome young Gérard Philipe as Fanfan, a cheeky soldier who enrolls in the wars of Louis XV (King of France from 1715 […]

Dec, 11

Escape from Alcatraz **** (1979, Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom) – Classic Movie Review 6347

The only real-life escape from the infamous San Francisco island prison of Alcatraz in 1962 provides the true story for director Don [Donald] Siegel’s totally gripping 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller. Three inmates attempt a daring escape […]

Dec, 02

The Satan Bug **** (1965, George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6252

Richard Basehart stars as the power-mad villain Dr Gregor Hoffman, who acquires a germ warfare lab’s mislaid bottle of a virus (The Satan Bug) that could destroy civilisation, in director John Sturges’s jolly 1965 crime, mystery, […]

Nov, 14

Skin Game **** (1971, James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr, Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes, Edward Asner, Andrew Duggan, Henry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5977

James Garner stars as a con man called Quincy Drew who keeps selling his African American sidekick Jason O’Rourke (Louis Gossett Jr [Lou Gossett]) as a slave and then rescuing him. Jason keeps escaping and […]

Aug, 27

The Secret War of Harry Frigg * (1967, Paul Newman, John Williams, Sylva Koscina) – Classic Movie Review 5973

Director Jack Smight’s lame 1967 World War Two-set comedy does not prove a good idea for Paul Newman. In a very rare misfiring performance, he does not impress at all as one-man army Private Harry […]

Aug, 26

Sleeping with the Enemy * (1991, Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 5888

Director Joseph Ruben’s 1991 movie Sleeping with the Enemy is a crass, unpleasant and exploitative sledgehammer thriller starring Julia Roberts as a battered wife, pretty woman Laura, who fakes her own death, runs away and […]

Aug, 09

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