Archive for tag: Michael Winner

Review: Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

28 February, 2012 (10:48) | by Richard T. Jameson, Film Reviews | By: Richard T. Jameson

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Death-wish mechanic Michael Winner first made his name as a director of comedies (You Must Be Joking, The Jokers, I’ll Never Forget Whats’isname)—a fact one remembers only with some straining, and without the assistance of his latest film. James Agee once suggested that really bad movies should [...]

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Review: Firepower

18 March, 2010 (17:40) | by Pierre Greenfield, Film Reviews | By: Pierre Greenfield

[Originally published in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] Having ripped off just about every other kind of commercial movie, Michael Winner has inevitably turned his attention to the Bond-style action thriller. Since the Bond films have been ripping themselves off for the past dozen or so years, the pilferings involved in Firepower don’t seem too [...]

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