Derek Winnert

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Lock Up ** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Darlanne Fluegel, Frank McRae, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 12,862

John Flynn’s routine but capable enough and entirely acceptable 1989 American prison action thriller film Lock Up stars Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland.  Director John Flynn’s routine but capable enough and entirely acceptable 1989 American […]

Apr, 28

Band of Thieves ** (1962, Acker Bilk, Jimmy Thompson, Jennifer Jayne) – Classic Movie Review 12,645

A band of ex-jailbirds get together to play jazz and commit crimes in the daft but mildly diverting 1962 musical crime film Band of Thieves starring clarinettist Acker Bilk. Director Peter Bezencenet’s 1962 British musical […]

Sep, 16

Hellgate **** (1952, Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond, Joan Leslie, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 12,071

Writer/director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1952 black and white Western film Hellgate stars Sterling Hayden as innocent war veteran Gil Hanley, who is wrongly sentenced as an American Civil War spy and sent to New Mexico’s […]

Apr, 19

Gun the Man Down *** (1956, James Arness, Angie Dickinson, Robert J Wilke, Harry Carey Jr, Don Megowan) – Classic Movie Review 11,615

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s neat and nifty 1956 black and white Western B-movie Gun the Man Down stars James Arness, Robert J Wilke and Harry Carey Jr, but is most notable for Angie Dickinson’s first […]

Oct, 01

Rio Bravo ***** (1959, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 2,540

Director Howard Hawks’s classic 1959 Western film Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as the southwest Texas small town lawman Sheriff John T Chance who prevents a killer (Claude Akins) with powerful friends arranged by his […]

Sep, 30

Reprisal! *** (1956, Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant, Michael Pate, Edward Platt) – Classic Movie Review 11,437

‘A HANGING TREE AT ONE END OF TOWN… and a wanton girl in jeopardy at the other.’ Director George Sherman’s strong and sterling 1956 Columbia Pictures Technicolor Western film Reprisal! is based on the novel […]

Aug, 01

I Thank a Fool * (1962, Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,415

Susan Hayward and Peter Finch have a thankless task to re-animate I Thank a Fool (1962). Director Robert Stevens’s 1962 British Metrocolor crime drama I Thank a Fool stars Peter Finch, Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril […]

Jul, 22

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