Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "James Clavell"

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King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422

George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]

Apr, 24

The Great Escape ***** (1963, Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, David McCallum, Gordon Jackson, Nigel Stock, James Donald, John Leyton) – Classic Movie Review 201

One of everybody’s favourite war films, director John Sturges’s 1963 classic The Great Escape is one of the most famous and popular prison escape films of all time. The bold plan here is that several hundred […]

Aug, 28

The Fly **** (1958, David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 193

‘Help me!’ ‘Help me!’ Kurt Neumann’s original 1958 horror classic The Fly stars David ‘Al’ Hedison as André Delambre, the scientist who dangerously messes with the unknown when he invents a matter transporter that he […]

Aug, 26

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