Derek Winnert

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The Gelignite Gang ** (1956, Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne, James Kenney) – Classic Movie Review 11,139

‘From Today’s Headlines Comes The Story of Killers That Terrorized a City… and the Men and Their Women Who Blew the Lid Sky High.’ Directors Francis Searle and Terence Fisher’s 1956 humble British B-movie black […]

Apr, 27

The Man from Bitter Ridge ** (1955, Lex Barker, Mara Corday, Stephen McNally, Trevor Bardette, John Dehner, Ray Teal, Warren Stevens, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 10,955

‘FLAMING DAYS of the Great Mountain Wars!’ Rather primitive acting and basic scripting hold back the interesting and pacy 1955 Universal International Pictures B-movie Eastmancolor Western film The Man from Bitter Ridge. But the political […]

Feb, 23

La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19

The Cosmic Man ** (1959, John Carradine, Bruce Bennett, Angela Greene, Paul Langton, Scotty Morrow, Lyn Osborn) – Classic Movie Review 3737

John Carradine stars as the Cosmic Man, an extra-terrestrial who appears in ultra-cheap negative photography visual effects – and disappears again at will – to spread his gospel of peace and love to understandably utterly […]

May, 22

Sphinx ** (1981, Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, John Gielgud) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 13

Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role as the resolute archaeologist Erica Baron in the infamous 1981 so-bad-it’s-good movie Sphinx. Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role in the infamous 1981 […]

Jun, 05

Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] ***** (1944, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley) – Classic Movie Review 739

‘A Sensational Triumph for the NEW Dick Powell.’ Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1944 American film noir Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] stars Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley in her final film before she […]

Jan, 25

Laura ***** (1944, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 335

‘The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!’ Director Otto Preminger’s glorious 1944 romantic mystery thriller Laura in the best film noir vein still exerts its […]

Oct, 28

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