Derek Winnert

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The Mad Room *** (1969, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Skip Ward, Carol Cole, Severn Darden, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 6032

Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters and Beverly Garland are a winning triple whammy in the 1969 horror movie The Mad Room. Co-writer/ director Bernard Girard’s 1969 horror movie The Mad Room is an atmospheric and suspenseful, […]

Sep, 17

Invaders from Mars ** (1986, Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort, Jimmy Hunt, Laraine Newman, James Karen) – Classic Movie Review 5996

Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite Invaders from Mars is remade by director Tobe Hooper in 1986 for Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s British Cannon studios, with Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy […]

Aug, 29

Blame It on Rio *** (1984, Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore) – Classic Movie Review 5909

Michael Caine is on commanding form as Matthew Hollis, a mixed-up middle-aged married man who starts a holiday romance in Rio with Jennifer (Michelle Johnson), the seductive teenage daughter of his libidinous best buddy Victor […]

Aug, 14

Narrow Margin **** (1990, Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B Sikking, J T Walsh, M Emmet Walsh, Harris Yulin) – Classic Movie Review 5908

‘It will take you to the edge of suspense.’ Director Peter Hyams’s ultra-suspense 1990 thriller Narrow Margin is a thrillingly exciting version for the Nineties of the 1952 RKO classic The Narrow Margin about a […]

Aug, 13

Up the Junction *** (1968, Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman, Michael Gothard, Liz Fraser, Hylda Baker, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 5897

Director Peter Collinson’s 1968 Up the Junction movie adaptation of Nell Dunn’s famous 1963 book and Ken Loach’s classic BBC TV adaptation of 1965 was popular but did not spark the kind of controversy or […]

Aug, 11

The Merry Widow ** (1952, Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner, Richard Haydn, Una Merkel, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott, Marcel Dalio, King Donovan, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5810

Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]

Jul, 24

The Desert Song **** (1953, Gordon MacRae, Kathryn Grayson, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 5739

Director Bruce Humberstone skillfully revives the antique show for his enjoyable 1953 musical adventure The Desert Song, with ideal stars in Gordon MacRae, Kathryn Grayson, Steve Cochran and Raymond Massey. This third film of Sigmund […]

Jul, 09

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