Derek Winnert

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Beachhead **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 5491

Director Stuart Heisler’s gritty, extremely decent little 1954 wartime action thriller unusually has a speaking cast of only seven, with just one woman – Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier, John […]

May, 24

The Emerald Forest **** (1985, Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman) – Classic Movie Review 5456

Director John Boorman’s 1985 jungle adventure The Emerald Forest is both thrilling and uplifting, with director Boorman’s own son Charley Boorman starring as Tommy, a boy kidnapped at seven and brought up by an Amazon […]

May, 15

Two Brothers *** (2004, Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore) – Classic Movie Review 5333

Co-producer/ co-writer/ director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s entertaining 2004 adventure is set in French Indochina in the 1920s. Guy Pearce stars as a hunter called Aidan McRory who has a fight on his hands when he unites […]

Apr, 23

Bride of the Gorilla * (1951, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr, Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh) – Classic Movie Review 5288

‘Her clothes torn away, screaming in terror!’ Writer-director Curt Siodmak’s 1951 horror movie Bride of the Gorilla is a bizarre, but entertaining so-bad-it’s-good shocker, with preposterous voodoo curse things going on in a South American […]

Apr, 14

The Lost World *** (1960, Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, David Hedison, Richard Haydn, Fernando Lamas, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 5122

Director Irwin Allen’s 1960 US adventure movie is the second film version of the famous Arthur Conan Doyle novel about team of scientists and adventurer explorers heading off to the South American Amazonian jungle in […]

Mar, 08

The Disembodied ** (1957, Paul Burke, Allison Hayes, John Wengraf) – Classic Movie Review 4920

Sultry Allison Hayes stars as Tonda Metz, the wife of tropical doctor Dr Carl Metz (John Wengraf), who sneaks off for voodoo dancing in her fetching sarong and matching tooth necklace and works up to […]

Jan, 22

Objective, Burma! **** (1945, Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince) – Classic Movie Review 4754

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1945 war movie stars Errol Flynn as Captain Nelson, who leads his platoon of US army paratroopers in a World War Two attack on a Japanese base after parachuting into Japanese-occupied Burma. […]

Dec, 05

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