Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "mercenary"

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Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] ** (1989, Brandon Lee, Debi A Monahan, Ernest Borgnine, Werner Pochath) – Classic Movie Review 11,339

Director Beau J Davis’s low-budget US/ German/ S African 1989 Laser Mission [Soldier of Fortune] is Brandon Lee’s second credited film, in which he plays US special agent Michael Gold, a mercenary loner and expert […]

Jun, 24

Tropic Zone * (1953, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Noah Beery Jr, Estelita Rodriguez, Grant Withers, John Wengraf) – Classic Movie Review 10,548

Rhonda Fleming is reunited with Ronald Reagan for Tropic Zone (1953) at Pine-Thomas Productions for release by Paramount. Writer-director Lewis R Foster’s 1953 Tropic Zone is a weak, forgettable adventure with simian-jawed, expatriate freedom-fighter hero […]

Nov, 16

Crossworlds ** (1996, Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Stuart Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,544

‘Imagine a place where all dimensions of the universe collide…’ Director Krishna Rao’s 1996 film Crossworlds is tolerable sci-fi action film with an on-form Rutger Hauer as A T, a space mercenary mentor, and Josh […]

Nov, 15

Universal Soldier ** (1972, George Lazenby, Edward Judd, Benito Carruthers, Germaine Greer, Rudolph Walker) – Classic Movie Review 9119

Director Cy Endfield’s 1972 war action drama Universal Soldier stars ex-Bond George Lazenby as mercenary Ryker, a gun for hire back in London with a view to a kill. Feminist Germaine Greer plays a feminist […]

Dec, 02

The Mercenaries [Dark of the Sun] *** (1968, Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, Kenneth More, Peter Carsten) – Classic Movie Review 9071

Wilbur Smith’s second published novel The Dark of the Sun (1965), about mercenaries during the Congo Crisis, was filmed as The Mercenaries (1968) starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux. Director Jack Cardiff’s 1968 MGM British movie The Mercenaries [Dark of the […]

Nov, 15

Cuba *** (1979, Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Hector Elizondo, Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam) -Classic Movie Review 8944

Director Richard Lester’s 1979 adventure Cuba stars Sean Connery as retired British army Major Robert Dapes, a mercenary who comes to Havana to serve as a military training adviser to the crumbling regime of General […]

Sep, 27

You Can’t Win ‘Em All ** (1970, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 8650

Unlikely co-stars Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson enjoy their roles and their repartee as joking ex-US Army mercenary sparring partners Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, hired by (Grégoire Aslan), in embattled Turkey in the civil […]

Jun, 28

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