Derek Winnert

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The Lawless Breed *** (1953, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Dennis Weaver, Hugh O’Brian, Mary Castle, Michael Ansara, Forrest Lewis, Lee Van Cleef, Glenn Strange) – Classic Movie Review 7,135

Universal-International’s 1953 American biographical crime Western film The Lawless Breed, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rock Hudson and Julie Adams, tells a romanticised story of the life of outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Rock Hudson […]

Jun, 08

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas *** (1982, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors, Robert Mandan) – Classic Movie Review 7115

Larry L King and Peter Masterson’s merely pleasant but long-running Broadway musical (this very American show did not do well in London’s West End) is refurbished to suit the talents and personalities of Dolly Parton as Miss […]

Jun, 04

Walk on the Wild Side **** (1962, Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck) – Classic Movie Review 7064

Dove Linkhorn: ‘What are you doing here, Kit?’ Kitty Twist: ‘I run the candy concession.’ Despite the film’s original release public relations hysteria as really hot stuff, director Edward Dmytryk’s would-be shocking 1962 movie proves […]

May, 17

Honeysuckle Rose *** (1980, Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7019

Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1980 fictionalised biopic of popular Country and Western singer Willie Nelson oddly uses the vintage classical music romantic soap opera drama Intermezzo (1939) as a starting point. The screenplay is based on the story by Gustaf […]

May, 08

The Last Sunset **** (1961, Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Carol Lynley, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 6911

The incest theme and some fine performances from a top cast help to lift director Robert Aldrich’s weird, well-crafted, over-the-top 1961 Western way out of the rut. Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Carol Lynley, […]

Apr, 11

Thunder Over the Plains ** (1953, Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw, Elisha Cook Jr, Henry Hull, Hugh Sanders, Lane Chandler, Fess Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6686

‘HIS WAS THE MOMENT HE HAD TO COUNT HIS BULLETS… because he couldn’t count on his friends!’ In Texas after the American Civil War, it is all happening to Randolph Scott’s fine, upstanding US Cavalry […]

Feb, 14

Raggedy Man *** (1981, Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 6629

Sissy Spacek, fresh from her Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), gets her husband Jack Fisk to direct her as Nita Longley, a spunky wartime divorcée, whose two sons are jealous when handsome sailor Eric Roberts arrives […]

Jan, 31

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