Derek Winnert

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The Land Unknown * (1957, Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon) – Classic Movie Review 11,566

The spectacularly creaky 1957 sci-fi adventure film The Land Unknown is infamous for its men in dinosaur suits, pathetic puppets and lizards standing in for dinosaurs. Director Virgil W Vogel’s 1957 black and white sci-fi […]

Sep, 11

Company of Killers **½ (1970, Van Johnson, Ray Milland, John Saxon, Clu Gulager, Brian Kelly, Fritz Weaver, Susan Oliver, Diana Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 10,960

‘Assassins for Hire! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Killing is Big Business In the Hands of This Murder Machine!’ Director Jerry Thorpe’s 1970 film Company of Killers is a reasonably involving, well-made multi-faceted crime thriller, with plenty of […]

Feb, 24

The Oregon Trail ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott, Henry Hull, John Carradine, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 10,631

Fred MacMurray stars as Eastern newspaper reporter Neal Harris, who comes West on a wagon-train pioneers story and helps to smooth the way between Indians and settlers in mid-19th century Oregon, in co-writer/ director Gene […]

Dec, 05

Gangway **** (1937, Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Nat Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 9934

Director Sonnie Hale’s 1937 film Gangway is a cheerful and cheering Thirties British black and white musical set on a ship bound for New York, where English reporter Pat Wayne (Jessie Matthews) is mistaken for […]

Jun, 19

Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] **** (1985, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 9677

Director David Drury’s outstanding political conspiracy thriller Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] furrowed a few brows in London’s Whitehall government district on its release in 1985. Gabriel Byrne stars in his career-making […]

Apr, 26

Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]

Sep, 21

It Happened Tomorrow **** (1944, Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 7191

Director René Clair’s 1944 American fantasy film It Happened Tomorrow stars Dick Powell as Larry Stevens, the lucky 1890s newspaper obituary writer and reporter who meets a mysterious  ghostly deceased newspaper man called Pop Benson (John Philliber) who has the […]

Jun, 19

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