Derek Winnert

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Mister Jerico *** (1970, Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 10,016

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1970 adventure thriller Mister Jericho stars Patrick Macnee, who is on good form as conman Mister Dudley Jericho, who sets out to Malta to grab a fabled diamond from ultra-rich corrupt millionaire Victor […]

Jul, 08

Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] **** (1963, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval) – Classic Movie Review 9,595

The 1963 French crime thriller Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] stars Jean Gabin as old career criminal Mister Charles and Alain Delon as his young former cellmate Francis Verlot, who plan to rob […]

Apr, 04

A Man, a Woman and a Bank *** (1979, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky) – Classic Movie Review 9535

Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams star as amateur crooks Reese Halperin (Sutherland) and Stacey Bishop (Adams), who find a computerised way to rob a Vancouver bank, in director Noel Black’s generally amusing, often tense Seventies […]

Mar, 20

The Runaway Bus *** (1954, Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 9,477

‘All Aboard for a Non-Stop Ride of Fun!’ Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1954 British black and white crime comedy film The Runaway Bus stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark and George Coulouris. London’s Heathrow Airport […]

Mar, 08

Diamonds for Breakfast * (1968, Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 9309

Italian idol Marcello Mastroianni came to Britain to play the Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno, a poor but sexy Soviet noble, in director Christopher Morahan’s weird 1968 Swinging Sixties heist caper comedy Diamonds for Breakfast. […]

Jan, 27

Seven Thieves **** (1960, Edward G Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 9293

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1960 French Riviera black and white caper movie Seven Thieves stars Edward G Robinson as old reprobate professor Theo Wilkins, who leads a gang of thieves in a cleverly constructed plot to […]

Jan, 23

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round *** (1966, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber, Rose Marie) – Classic Movie Review 9032

Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]

Oct, 30

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