Derek Winnert

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Three Kings **** (1999, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze) – Classic Movie Review 4618

Writer-director David O Russell’s brilliant American satirical black comedy anti-war movie is based on a story by John Ridley. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze star as adventurous American soldiers during the 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein, who […]

Nov, 09

The Train Robbers *** (1973, John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson, Bobby Vinton) – Classic Movie Review 4592

Burt Kennedy, the script-writer of Budd Boetticher’s classic Fifties Westerns, wrote and directed this 1973 Western for a rather plump and elderly-looking John Wayne, who, as gunhand Lane, leads a gang taken on by worthy […]

Nov, 05

The Long Ships ** (1964, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 4434

Richard Widmark is absurdly cast as Rolfe, a Viking adventurer, and Sidney Poitier not much better as Prince Aly Mansuh, leader of the Moors, who come to blows over the legendary Golden Bell, made of pure […]

Sep, 29

Yellow Sky **** (1948, Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, Harry Morgan, James Barton) – Classic Movie Review 3975

Director William A Wellman’s powerful 1948 Western is a near classic. It is motored by one of Gregory Peck’s top performances as Stretch Dawson, a kindly outlaw who fights one of the nastier villains he is […]

Jul, 04

Big Jake *** (1971, John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chris Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 3410

Director George Sherman’s robust 1971 Western sees an ageing John Wayne coming towards the end of the trail as Big Jake McCandles, an old Texas cattleman chasing John Fain (Richard Boone)’s bloodthirsty gang who have […]

Feb, 26

Ride the High Country [Guns in the Afternoon] ***** (1962, Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Edgar Buchanan, Mariette Hartley, James Drury, Ronald Starr) – Classic Movie Review 3069

Director Sam Peckinpah’s 1962 Western is his second film as director (after The Deadly Companions in 1961) and one of his very best. Ageing stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott are magnificent as ex-marshal Steve […]

Nov, 17

Woman in the Moon [Frau im Mond] **** (1929, Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 3006

Director Fritz Lang’s last silent movie from 1929 is one of the first and most important sci-fi movies with its story of obsession about a half-mad greedy scientist, Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl), who finds that there […]

Oct, 23

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