Derek Winnert

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Monte Carlo or Bust! *** (1969, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 11,157

Director Ken Annakin’s 1969 comedy Monte Carlo or Bust! [Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies] stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes, […]

May, 02

The Racers * (1955, Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9524

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1955 sporting drama The Racers [Such Men Are Dangerous] stars Kirk Douglas as Gino Borgesa, who dashes around the picturesque roads of Europe in his quest to win the Monaco Grand Prix, […]

Mar, 18

Death Race 2000 *** (1975, David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth) – Classic Movie Review 8946

Director Paul Bartel’s 1975 exploitation classic Death Race 2000 stars David Carradine as leather-clad sports driver champion Frankenstein, who battles tough opponents Chicago challenger Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), cowgirl killer Calamity Jane (Mary […]

Sep, 28

Kings Go Forth *** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8922

‘One Gave Her Everything a Woman Could Want… One Took Everything a Woman Could Give!’ Director Delmer Daves’s 1958 black and white World War Two romance action drama, Kings Go Forth is based on the […]

Sep, 20

Driven ** (2001, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue, Til Schweiger) – Classic Movie Review 8876

Sylvester Stallone is in low gear for director Renny Harlin’s pounding 2001 motor-race movie Driven, in which a thumping rock score battles the roar of Indy car engines as drivers try to ram each other […]

Sep, 01

Le Mans *** (1971, Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen) – Classic Movie Review 5282

Directors Lee H Katzin and John Sturges’s 1971 documentary-style sports action adventure drama allows Steve McQueen to bring his car-racing hobby to the screen in a fictional star role as Michael Delaney, a sullen American […]

Apr, 13

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World **** (1963, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Peter Falk) – Classic Movie Review 5094

Producer-director Kramer delivers what it says on the tin – ‘a comedy to end all comedies’ – in a bright and breezy epic madcap cross-country chase farce that skilfully piles up daffy turns, funny gags […]

Mar, 03

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