Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "South America."

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Fire Birds [Wings of the Apache] ** (1990, Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young) – Classic Movie Review 12,215

Nicolas Cage stars in the 1990 American military action film Fire Birds [Wings of the Apache] as US Army Apache-assault-helicopter pilot Jake Preston, who is trained to peak fitness by tough chief warrant officer Brad Little (Tommy […]

Jul, 03

Tycoon ** (1947, John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, James Gleason, Judith Anderson, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6992

Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]

May, 03

Sorcerer ** (1977, Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri) – Classic Movie Review 4507

William Friedkin’s 1977 box-office flop American remake of the 1953 French classic thriller The Wages of Fear is an extravagant and sometimes impressive movie. Roy Scheider makes a useful hero, but Sorcerer is not a […]

Oct, 22

Five Fingers **** (1952, James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 3605

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s smart, sleek, smooth, suspenseful, satisfying espionage thriller stars a well-cast James Mason, who gives a splendid performance as a Nazi spy, L C Moyzisch aka Cicero, during World War Two. Working […]

Apr, 23

Only Angels Have Wings ***** (1939, Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth, Jean Arthur) – Classic Movie Review 1261

Director Howard Hawks’s 1939 high-flying classic stars Cary Grant as Geoff Carter, a pilot and the manager of Barranca Airways, a tatty airmail and freight service working out of Ecuador. The small, barely solvent air […]

May, 27

Proof of Life **** (2000, Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, David Caruso, Pamela Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1032

Director Taylor Hackford’s 2000 thriller is the one where Meg Ryan met and fell for Russell Crowe in real life. It is a scalding, epic action thriller about kidnap and retrieval. Alice Bowman (Ryan) begs […]

Apr, 01

The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur] ***** (1953, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot) – Classic Movie Review 927

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s awesome sweaty-palmed, uber-tense, ultra-tough 1953 action thriller established his international reputation. It also turned Yves Montand into a star as a member of the desperate quartet (Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and […]

Mar, 17

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