Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "spy"

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The Nude Bomb ** (1980, Don Adams, Andrea Howard, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 10,537

Director Clive Donner’s daffy, campy, bawdy 1980 American spy spoof comedy The Nude Bomb (retitled The Return of Maxwell Smart for television) is based on the TV series Get Smart with the drily amusing Don […]

Nov, 13

Assignment K * (1968, Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Jeremy Kemp, Jane Merrow) – Classic Movie Review 10,514

Director Val Guest’s mostly dull and dreary 1968 British spy thriller Assignment K stars Stephen Boyd in a dull and dreary performance as toy company boss Philip Scott, secretly the head of a British spy […]

Nov, 08

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen ** (1942, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Gale Sondergaard, Sig Ruman, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 10,510

‘ELLERY PITS YANKEE BRAINS AGAINST NAZI CUNNING… to bring you thrills!’ Director James P Hogan’s 1942 Columbia Pictures wartime mystery thriller Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen is William Gargan’s third and final shot at the […]

Nov, 07

Pascali’s Island **** (1988, Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 10,421

Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]

Oct, 15

The Double Man ** (1967, Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill, Anton Diffring, Moira Lister, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,182

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s minor 1967 British spy thriller The Double Man stars Yul Brynner in two roles (high-ranking CIA widower Dan Slater and his lookalike enemy agent, Kalmar). A large part of the action […]

Aug, 15

Lucky Jordan * (1942, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard) – Classic Movie Review 10,105

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1942 crime drama Lucky Jordan is a shaky, unexciting vehicle for Alan Ladd as New York gangster Lucky Jordan, an artful dodger, crook and gambler. He is drafted into the army, deserts, and […]

Jul, 29

OSS [O.S.S.] **** (1946, Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 10,100

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 film OSS stars Alan Ladd as John Martin, the leader of a secret American unit of the Office of Strategic Services, dropped behind enemy lines in World War Two France. The […]

Jul, 28

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