Derek Winnert

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Compo * (1989, Jeremy Stanford, Bruce Kerr, Christopher Barry, Elizabeth Crockett) – Classic Movie Review 10,985

Producer-director Nigel Buesst’s 1989 Australian low-budget independent film Compo is a well-meaning if rather dreary satirical comedy-drama from Down Under about office bureaucracy and romance. It is based on the play Claim No. Z84 by […]

Mar, 04

Confessions of a Sex Maniac [The Man Who Couldn’t Get Enough] (1974, Roger Lloyd Pack, Vicki Hodge, Derek Royle) – Classic Movie Review 10,962

‘They said that if he didn’t stop he’d go blind! ‘ Producer-director Alan Birkinshaw’s 1974 British low-budget and tacky sex farce Confessions of a Sex Maniac has a rubbish script and a cast of struggling […]

Feb, 25

The Flaw ** (1955, John Bentley, Donald Houston, Rona Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 10,856

Director Terence Fisher’s 1955 black and white British B-picture thriller The Flaw is an okay British 1950s crime filler, in which it is smoothie professional race car driver Paul Oliveri (John Bentley)’s evil plot to […]

Jan, 30

Say Hello to Yesterday * (1971, Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye) – Classic Movie Review 10,843

Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1971 British romance Say Hello to Yesterday stars Leonard Whiting, the former Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, as a pretty but thoroughly unpleasant young seducer pursuing an affluent, middle-aged housewife […]

Jan, 28

The Man Who Finally Died ** (1963, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Green, Alfred Burke, Eric Portman, Georgina Ward) – Classic Movie Review 10,834

The very Welsh Stanley Baker stars as Joe Newman, who goes back to his German roots to search in Bavaria for information about what became of his father in the Second World War and is […]

Jan, 26

Alphabet City *** (1984, Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Kate Vernon, Jami Gertz, Zohra Lampert) – Classic Movie Review 10,824

‘At 19, they gave him the streets. Tonight, they’re going to take them back.’ Director Amos Poe’s interesting, tough-toned 1984 crime thriller Alphabet City stars Vincent Spano, then a rising star player apparently going places, […]

Jan, 24

Seizure ** (1974, Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola, Hervé Villechaize, Troy Donahue, Henry Judd Baker) – Classic Movie Review 10,802

‘You can’t run from them… you can’t hide from them.’ The 1974 Canadian-American comedy horror film Seizure is notable as the directorial debut of Oliver Stone, who also co-writes the screenplay with Edward Mann. Jonathan […]

Jan, 17

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