Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "sabotage"

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Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines *** (1965, Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Robert Morley, James Fox, Eric Sykes, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 6279

Edwardian pioneer fliers compete in publisher Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley)’s 1910 London-to-Paris air race in every kind of ramshackle contraption. Caddish Sir Percy Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) is willing to cheat, upstanding guards officer Richard Mays (James Fox) keeps a stiff […]

Nov, 21

Ice Station Zebra **** (1968, Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 6250

Director John Sturges’s pulsating 1968 adventure movie stars Rock Hudson as Commander James Ferraday, USN, who commands the US Navy nuclear submarine USS Tigerfish on a journey under the ice from its Scottish base to […]

Nov, 14

Black Dragons ** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke) – Classic Movie Review 5667

Director William Nigh’s 1942 Black Dragons is a sinister and extremely weird wartime thriller, starring Bela Lugosi as brilliant scientist Dr Melcher, who is instructed by Japan’s fiendish Black Dragon Society to go to Japan on a […]

Jun, 25

The Silver Fleet *** (1943, Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 5525

The 1943 British wartime propaganda drama film The Silver Fleet comes from distinguished producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who worked behind the scenes but handed over the writing and directing chores to Vernon Sewell […]

May, 31

Scanners *** (1981, Jennifer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 5157

Writer-director David Cronenberg’s startling Canadian 1981 futuristic sci-fi action horror thriller basically tells a good versus evil battle story, but with an exploding head refreshing the mix. It was a special effects-driven eye-opener back in […]

Mar, 15

The Groundstar Conspiracy ***½ (1972, George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, James Olson) – Classic Movie Review 4,709

George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin enliven the gripping, suspenseful 1972 action mystery thriller film The Groundstar Conspiracy about dirty work at a secret space-research plant. George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin enliven director Lamont Johnson’s intriguing […]

Nov, 27

The Black Rider ** (1954, Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries, Beatrice Varley, Vincent Ball, Edwin Richfield, Kenneth Connor) – Classic Movie Review 4080

Director Wolf Rilla’s 1954 double-feature thriller starts with an idea as old as the hills about a gang of crooks who are apparently haunting a ruined castle. Jimmy Hanley stars as the young reporter and amateur […]

Jul, 25

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