Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "mountain"

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The Mountain **½ (1956, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, E G Marshall, Richard Arlen) Classic Movie Review 3398

Talented producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s high-climbing 1956 drama provides more evidence that mountain movies are fiendishly tricky to do, as they higher they climb the farther they fall. Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner play brothers Zachary […]

Feb, 22

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams *** (1974, Dan Haggerty, Don Shanks, Marjorie Harper, Lisa Jones, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 3277

Dan Haggerty stars in director Richard Friedenberg’s 1974 wildlife family Western adventure as grizzled woodsman trapper James ‘Grizzly’ Adams, who is mistakenly accused of the crime of murder. Fleeing from bounty hunters, he treks off […]

Jan, 17

Everest **½ (2015, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright) – Movie Review

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, Two Guns) tells the old, old tale of man going up against mountain and coming up against a huge obstacle. But what is the story? His 1996 real-life scenario (in a […]

Sep, 17

The Trollenberg Terror [The Crawling Eye] ** (1958, Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro, Jennifer Jayne, Warren Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,370

In 1956, British TV viewers thrilled to a serial called The Trollenberg Terror, in which a remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures who enjoy decapitating humans.  In 1956, British TV […]

Apr, 08

Lost Horizon ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,210

Shangri-la seems to be the perfect escape, but is it the Utopia it appears? Frank Capra’s charming 1937 romantic adventure film Lost Horizon stars Ronald Colman. Director Frank Capra’s 1937 romantic adventure classic film Lost […]

Feb, 24

Cold Mountain *** (2003, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Charlie Hunnam, Jena Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1821

After fierce fighting in the American Civil War, wounded Confederate soldier Inman (Jude Law) is on a perilous journey home to his North Carolina mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-Civil War sweetheart Ada […]

Nov, 09

Dracula: Prince of Darkness **** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 1734

After a long gap, Hammer Films’ 1966 sequel to its finest achievement – the 1958 Dracula – resurrects the Count with the inestimable help of ultra-smooth Christopher Lee back in his most famous role as […]

Oct, 03

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