Derek Winnert

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The Tamarind Seed *** (1974, Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Oskar Homolka, Sylvia Syms, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 8628

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s enjoyable 1974 movie The Tamarind Seed is a handsome production, with sprightly direction, and the super, pleasing stars convert Evelyn Anthony’s novel into an attractive, appealing romantic, spy thriller movie. As usual, […]

Jun, 23

Confessions of a Nazi Spy ***½ (1939, Edward G Robinson, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas, George Sanders, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8,023

Warner Brothers take on the Hun in director Anatole Litvak’s 1939 American spy political thriller film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a timely exposé of Nazis at work in America just before the Second World […]

Jan, 16

How to Steal the World ** (1968, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Barry Sullivan, Eleanor Parker, Leslie Nielsen, Leo G Carroll, Tony Bill, Albert Paulsen, Hugh Marlowe, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 6,926

The Men from U.N.C.L.E. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are back in 1968 in another engagingly wacky Sixties action adventure, reprising their roles as agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin for the last time in […]

Apr, 15

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt *** (1939, Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth) – Classic Movie Review 6844

Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]

Mar, 22

Passport to Suez ** (1943, Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Gavin Muir, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6841

Director André De Toth’s 1943 thriller is a very passable, more than decently done Lone Wolf series entry, with Warren William back one more time in the last of his nine films as the jewel […]

Mar, 22

The Russia House **½ (1990, Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6662

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1990 The Russia House stars Sean Connery, who is back in the USSR as Barley Blair, romancing Russian woman Katya (an unlikely Michelle Pfeiffer), in this intriguing, picturesque and well-acted if clunky and […]

Feb, 08

Artists and Models *** (1955, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone, Eddie Mayehoff, Eva Gabor, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 6621

Co-writer director Frank Tashlin’s 1955 comedy vehicle for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis is co-written by actor Don McGuire, Lewis’s friend, who also co-wrote the weak Martin and Lewis film Three Ring Circus (1954). The comedy is […]

Jan, 30

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