Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "spy"

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Zeppelin *** (1971, Michael York, Elke Sommer, Peter Carsten, Marius Goring, Anton Diffring, Andrew Keir, Rupert Davies) – Classic Movie Review 8709

Director Etienne Périer’s 1971 wartime adventure drama Zeppelin is a spiffing, busy and fast-moving schoolboy-style spy yarn with the Brits out to steal World War One German airship secrets and stop a daring commando raid […]

Jul, 15

S*P*Y*S * (1974, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Griffith, Vladek Sheybal) – Classic Movie Review 8622

  Director Irwin Kershner’s 1974 S*P*Y*S is a fumbled spy comedy thriller, with the stars of MASH (or M*A*S*H) all at sea and totally wasted. Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland play CIA agents in Paris, […]

Jun, 21

The Human Factor ** (1979, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 8602

Otto Preminger’s 1979 spy film The Human Factor adapts the Graham Greene novel about an apparently innocent man, Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson), suspected of being an MI6 mole. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s feeble, uninspired 1979 British […]

Jun, 17

Innocent Bystanders ** (1972, Stanley Baker, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence, Dana Andrews, Sue Lloyd, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 8501

Donald Pleasence and Dana Andrews play the heads of British and US intelligence, and Stanley Baker plays the top British spy-in-action, in director Peter Collinson’s 1972 Innocent Bystanders, a rather feeble secret agent thriller about […]

May, 26

The Killer Elite *** (1975, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Gig Young, Bo Hopkins, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 8405

The 1975 action crime thriller The Killer Elite is a good, but not great, Sam Peckinpah action movie with a touch of the then in-vogue Seventies kung fu. The cast and director put it over […]

Apr, 27

The Ghost of St Michael’s **** (1941, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 8392

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]

Apr, 23

Birds Do It * (1966, Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O’Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8337

Director Andrew Marton’s 1966 film Birds Do It is a silly, mostly mirthless comedy with Soupy Sales starring as Melvin Byrd, a nuclear plant’s caretaker ionised in error so he can fly across Florida and […]

Apr, 06

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