Derek Winnert

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Color Me Dead * (1969, Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason) – Classic Movie Review 6677

Producer-director Eddie Davis’s 1969 Australian remake of the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A. stars Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, an accountant who finds he has taken a slow-working deadly poison and must track down his […]

Feb, 11

Murphy’s War *** (1971, Peter O’Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret) – Classic Movie Review 6546

The 1971 British wartime adventure Murphy’s War finds a good role for Peter O’Toole as a sole British naval ship survivor obsessed with blowing up a U-boat. Director Peter Yates’s 1971 British wartime adventure drama […]

Jan, 11

Boiling Point [3-4 x jûgatsu] **** (1990, Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida) – Classic Movie Review 6529

Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano’s second film (after 1989’s Violent Cop) is a typically quirky take on the Yakuza movie. As well as writing and directing, he also stars (billed as ‘Beat’ Takeshi) as Uehara, a sadistic […]

Jan, 06

Edward II **** (1991, Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch, Dudley Sutton, Annie Lennox) – Classic Movie Review 6497

Director Derek Jarman’s 1991 film version of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century Elizabethan play about the outrageous gay English King Edward II is a lively, imaginative and often moving piece of work. It brings the revered antique play […]

Dec, 30

The Deadly Companions *** (1961, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, Chill Wills, Strother Martin, Will Wright) – Classic Movie Review 6432

‘You don’t know me well enough to hate me that much.’ – Yellowleg. Director Sam Peckinpah’s first movie after making TV Westerns features Brian Keith as US Civil War Yankee sergeant Yellowleg, a gunfighter escorting […]

Dec, 19

The Left Handed Gun ***½ (1958, Paul Newman, Lita Milan, Hurd Hatfield, James Congdon, James Best, John Dehner, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 6413

Gore Vidal’s 1955 American TV play The Death of Billy the Kid starred Paul Newman, and he re-creates his role as Henry McCarty (23 November 1859 – 14 July 1881), who called himself William H […]

Dec, 15

A Town Called Bastard [A Town Called Hell] **½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 6345

Director Robert Parrish’s cold-blooded, crudely made and excessively violent 1971 Spaghetti Western (or paella Western as it is filmed in Spain), with its main assets in the dependable cast – especially Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, […]

Dec, 02

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