Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Mexico"

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Revenge * (1990, Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Tomas Milian) – Classic Movie Review 8925

Director Tony Scott’s flashy 1990 thriller Revenge stars Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn and Madeleine Stowe, and is based on a novel by Jim Harrison, who co-writes his own screenplay (with Jeffrey Alan Fiskin). The good […]

Sep, 21

Death in the Garden [La mort en ce jardin] **** (1956, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 8835

This Luis Buñuel rarity is a colourful adventure thriller set in Mexico, where a motley group of French people – a bad boy adventurer [Shark], a priest [Father Lizardi], a prostitute [Djin], an old diamond […]

Aug, 16

Second Chance *** (1953, Robert Mitchum, Jack Palance, Linda Darnell) – Classic Movie Review 8717

‘For the First Time –3D With Important Stars!’ Director Rudolph Maté’s 1953 3D Technicolor crime thriller Second Chance stars Robert Mitchum as troubled, hard-drinking prizefighter Russ Lambert, who falls for gangster’s moll Clare Sinclair (Linda […]

Jul, 16

Fiesta ** (1947, Esther Williams, Akim Tamiroff, Ricardo Montalban, John Carroll, Cyd Charisse, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8349

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1947 slim escapist entertainment Fiesta is vaguely amusing but not MGM’s best musical, thanks to slack work by writers George Bruce and Lester Cole. Unfortunately, it is hardly a musical at all, […]

Apr, 09

The Beast of Hollow Mountain ** (1956, Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas) – Classic Movie Review 8347

Directors Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriguez’s 1956 Mexican Sci-Fi horror Western movie The Beast of Hollow Mountain stars Guy Madison as Jimmy Ryan, an American cowboy rancher living in Mexico who suspects a Plasticine monster […]

Apr, 08

Wetbacks * (1956, Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates, Barton MacLane, John Hoyt, Harold Peary, Nacho Galindo) – Classic Movie Review 8261

Director Hank McCune’s Wetbacks (1956) stars Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane, but the really good news is that it is written by Edward D Wood Jr (hiding his light under a bushel as […]

Mar, 18

Gunmen from Laredo * (1959, Robert Knapp, Maureen Hingert, Walter Coy, Paul Birch, Don C Harvey, Charles Horvath) – Classic Movie Review 8169

Director Wallace MacDonald’s 1959 film Gunmen from Laredo take its small place in movie history as the final Columbia Pictures Western, in a series of more than 300 low-budget films that started in 1930. It […]

Feb, 24

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