Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Mexico"

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Major Dundee **** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 5680

Charlton Heston gives a bravura turn as the tormented cavalry Major Amos Dundee and Richard Harris excels too as Captain Benjamin Tyreen, a dashing Confederate rebel, in director Sam Peckinpah’s troubled 1965 epic Western about […]

Jun, 28

The Appaloosa [Southwest to Sonora] *** (1966, Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon) – Classic Movie Review 5406

‘Southwest to Sonora rode the lustful, the lawless… to live on the edge of violence!’ Marlon Brando stars in The Appaloosa [Southwest to Sonora] (1966) as Matt Fletcher, a Mexican-American buffalo hunter cowboy, who vows […]

May, 06

Border Incident ***½ (1949, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 5274

Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir crime thriller lifts a mundane yarn about the law versus illegal Mexican immigrants by shooting it in a sharply realist fashion with John Alton’s noir-style black and white photography. […]

Apr, 10

Jeopardy *** (1953, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 4974

Director John Sturges’s 1953 thriller stars Barbara Stanwyck as a panic-stricken woman called Helen Stilwin, who seeks help from an escaped convict killer (Ralph Meeker) when her husband (Barry Sullivan) is injured beside the beach […]

Feb, 01

Marriage on the Rocks ** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, Hermione Baddeley, Tony Bill, Nancy Sinatra, John McGiver, Trini Lopez) – Classic Movie Review 4,781

The easy-going 1965 American comedy film Marriage on the Rocks reunites Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin for a contrived concoction of a marital farce. Sinatra and Deborah Kerr star as a happily […]

Dec, 10

Captain from Castile **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J Cobb, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Gomez, Alan Mowbray, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 4683

The spirited classic 1947 swashbuckling adventure film Captain from Castile hands the handsome and dashing Tyrone Power a tailor-made role as the 16th-century young Spanish officer Pedro De Vargas. Director Henry King’s spirited classic 1947 […]

Nov, 22

The Matador **** (2005, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4284

Pierce Brosnan scores a hit as a world-weary hit-man, who drags failed salesman Greg Kinnear into his crazy way of life in Mexico. Much later, a desperate Brosnan turns up at Kinnear’s home to seek […]

Sep, 02

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