Derek Winnert

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Erik the Viking ** (1989, Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, Imogen Stubbs, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 12,574

Writer-director Terry Jones’s soft and silly 1989 British comedy fantasy film Erik the Viking stars Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, Imogen Stubbs, and John Cleese. Ex-Python Jones’s daft Norse saga is more […]

Jul, 12

Viking Women and the Sea Serpent ** (1957, Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Brad Jackson, June Kenney, Richard Devon) – Classic Movie Review 5002

Cult horror producer-director Roger Corman’s 1957 fantasy adventure is spirited cheerful nonsense if amateurish and scarily cheap looking. That is not surprising as it cost only $110,000 and took 10 days to make! It stars […]

Feb, 06

The Long Ships ** (1964, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 4434

Richard Widmark is absurdly cast as Rolfe, a Viking adventurer, and Sidney Poitier not much better as Prince Aly Mansuh, leader of the Moors, who come to blows over the legendary Golden Bell, made of pure […]

Sep, 29

The Tartars [I Tartari] *** (1961, Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 2668

Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]

Jul, 06

How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** (2014, voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett) – Movie Review

Kids and their attendant grown-ups will be satisfied with writer-director Dean DeBlois’s robust, pleasant and amusing yet unnecessary sequel to the DreamWorks 2010 animation hit, based on Cressida Cowell‘s book series. It’s altogether totally fine […]

Jul, 10

Prince Valiant **** (1954, Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 1301

Three cheers for director Henry Hathaway’s vividly realized, brilliantly colourful 1954 sword-fighting historical adventure extravaganza. It stars a marvellous, on-form cast in Robert Wagner as a fresh-faced Viking Prince Valiant, James Mason as the villainous […]

Jun, 07

The Vikings **** (1958, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox, Maxine Audley, Frank Thring) – Classic Movie Review 143

Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh are all in their glorious prime in this exciting, top-quality period adventure hokum from 1958. Douglas (Einar) and Curtis (Eric) fight it out with vicious abandon […]

Aug, 10

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