Derek Winnert

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To Trap a Spy *** (1964, Robert Vaughn, Luciana Paluzzi, Patricia Crowley, William Marshall, Fritz Weaver, David McCallum, Will Kuluva) – Classic Movie Review 4741

The 1964 first The Man from U.N.C.L.E. feature film To Trap a Spy is a spinoff from the 70-minute TV pilot expanded for cinemas. Robert Vaughn stars as secret agent Napoleon Solo and David McCallum has […]

Dec, 03

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

Crook’s Tour *** (1941, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt) – Classic Movie Review 4696

The endearing Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne return for the third time in their quintessential Englishmen abroad guise as cricket-mad Charters and Caldicott (after The Lady Vanishes and Night Train to Munich) in director John […]

Nov, 24

Duplicity *** (2009, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti) – Classic Movie Review 4620

After appearing together in 2004’s Closer, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts are reunited for writer-director Tony Gilroy’s entertaining 2009 romantic caper thriller as a pair of former spies for MI6 and the CIA. They fell […]

Nov, 09

Permission to Kill [The Executioner] ** (1975, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton, Bekim Fehmiu, Frederic Forrest, Nicole Calfan) – Classic Movie Review 4597

Director Cyril Frankel’s dreary, dour and preposterous 1975 spy thriller was a setback to its star Dirk Bogarde, then at the peak of his serious movie career after Victim (1961), The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965), Accident (1967), […]

Nov, 06

Little Nikita *** (1988, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Carolina Kava) – Classic Movie Review 4562

Director Richard Benjamin’s involving 1988 Cold War thriller stars Sidney Poitier and young River Phoenix as a sympathetic FBI man called Roy Parmenter and Jeff Grant, a teenage boy he helps out when it turns […]

Oct, 29

The Goose Steps Out ***½ (1942, Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov, Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell, Barry Morse, Peter Croft) – Classic Movie Review 4554

Will  Hay’s outrageous 1942 British farce is an intriguing and endearing collision between wartime morale-boosting propaganda and slapstick comedy, made at the height of World War Two. Its idea to ‘poke fun at the hun’ […]

Oct, 28

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