Derek Winnert

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Bug ** (1975, Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland) – Classic Movie Review 8211

‘They Look Like Rocks…Possess A High Intelligence…Have No Eyes…And Eat Ashes…They Travel In Your Car Exhaust…They Make Fire…They Kill.’ How promising and exciting is that? But maybe try to contain your excitement a little. Director […]

Mar, 07

Dark Command *** (1940, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 5519

A year after they starred together in Stagecoach, John Wayne and Claire Trevor are paired again for director Raoul Walsh’s 1940 Republic Western. Walter Pidgeon also stars as Will Cantrell who changes his profession from […]

May, 29

High School Confidential! [Young Hellions] ** (1958, Mamie Van Doren, Russ Tamblyn, Jan Sterling, John Drew Barrymore,, Jackie Coogan, Michael Landon) – Classic Movie Review 4963

Russ Tamblyn stars as an incredibly unlikely investigator into the corrupt High School youth of the day taking marijuana at Santo Bello High, in director Jack Arnold’s spectacularly trashy – and now funny – 1958 […]

Jan, 29

The Virginian *** (2000, Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, John Savage, Dennis Weaver, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 4881

Co-producer/ star Bill Pullman directs himself as rancher hero The Virginian in this stalwart, well-acted fifth filming of the famous classic Owen Wister Western yarn, adapted as a 2000 TV movie by writer Larry Gross. […]

Jan, 12

The Sea Gull **** (1968, James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner, Harry Andrews, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Radd, Eileen Herlie, Alfred Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 4375

James Mason is outstanding as successful novelist Trigorin in director Sidney Lumet’s fine, faithful, though long and gloomy 1968 film version of the Anton Chekhov classic play The Sea Gull.  With this cast and crew […]

Sep, 17

Le Boucher [The Butcher] ***** (1970, Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia) – Classic Movie Review 4197

Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]

Aug, 19

The Witches ** (1966, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 3068

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1966 horror movie is a typical Hammer Films outing into the territory of black magic, the occult, voodoo and witchcraft. It features two effective performances – from a rather film-starry Joan Fontaine […]

Nov, 17

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