Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "jungle"

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Sorcerer ** (1977, Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri) – Classic Movie Review 4507

William Friedkin’s 1977 box-office flop American remake of the 1953 French classic thriller The Wages of Fear is an extravagant and sometimes impressive movie. Roy Scheider makes a useful hero, but Sorcerer is not a […]

Oct, 22

Fitzcarraldo ***** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy) – Classic Movie Review 4459

The great Klaus Kinski stars in the role he was born for – the real-life turn-of-the-last-century mad Irishman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan was to build an opera house in the middle of the Peruvian jungle […]

Oct, 05

The Mosquito Coast **** (1986, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4129

Director Peter Weir’s 1986 adventure movie stars Harrison Ford, who eagerly grasps the nettle of an unusual role for him as an unsympathetic and dangerously obsessive hero – the eccentric and crazed inventor Allie Fox, who […]

Aug, 04

Romancing the Stone **** (1984, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau, Manuel Ojeda, Zack Norman) – Classic Movie Review 4085

Director Robert Zemeckis’s sparkling 1984 comedy adventure stars Michael Douglas, the actor-producer with the Midas touch in the Eighties and Nineties, who strikes box-office gold gold again with this spoofy action adventure tale, written by Diane Thomas. […]

Jul, 25

The Jungle Book **** (2016, Neel Sethi, voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba, Garry Shandling, Scarlett Johansson) – Movie Review

Little Neel Sethi is ideal as the man-cub Mowgli who flees the jungle after a death threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Ben Kingsley and Bill Murray provide the excellent key voices of Bagheera the panther and the bear […]

Apr, 13

Halls of Montezuma **** (1950, Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone, Jack Webb) – Classic Movie Review 3505

Director Lewis Milestone’s patriotic 1950 war movie stars Richard Widmark, who is on fine fighting form as Lieutenant Carl Anderson, the former school teacher who turns a rag-tag company of American Marines into an effective fighting […]

Mar, 26

The Pirates of Blood River *** (1962, Christopher Lee, Kerwin Mathews, Peter Arne, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Andrew Keir, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 3280

In co-writer/director John Gilling’s 1962 high adventure yarn The Pirates of Blood River, pirates attack the French Huguenots for their gold. The movie stars Kerwin Mathews as the dashing Huguenot hero Jonathon Standing battling the […]

Jan, 18

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