Derek Winnert

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The Thief Who Came to Dinner *** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9,450

The 1973 film The Thief Who Came to Dinner is an often sparkling caper thriller, with an on-form Ryan O’Neal as Webster McGee, a charming diamond thief playing cat and mouse with Warren Oates’s canny […]

Mar, 01

The Moon-Spinners *** (1964, Hayley Mills, Peter McEnery, Eli Wallach, Joan Greenwood, John le Mesurier, Pola Negri, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 7351

Director James Neilson’s 1964 British adventure The Moon-Spinners is the Walt Disney film where child star Hayley Mills is finally allowed to grow up and get her man. Alas it does not really add any […]

Jul, 26

Green Ice ** (1981, Ryan O’Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 6967

Director Ernest Day’s tired 1981 British action thriller stars Ryan O’Neal as Joseph Wiley, an out-of-luck engineer adventurer who meets a rich mysterious woman, the femme fatale Holbrook (Anne Archer), in Mexico, and they head for Colombia, in […]

Apr, 27

Captain Kidd *** (1945, Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland, Sheldon Leonard, Henry Daniell, John Qualen) – Classic Movie Review 4.803

Director Rowland V Lee’s lively if slack and unhistorical 1945 adventure movie Captain Kidd has the great virtue of starring the incomparable Charles Laughton as the mischievous pirate captain. He enjoys a fine old time […]

Dec, 21

The Burglars [Le Casse] *** (1971, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein, Nicole Callan, Renato Salvatori) – Classic Movie Review 4,678

The 1971 French neo noir crime film The Burglars [Le Casse] sees four burglars (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Hossein, Renato Salvatori, Nicole Calfan) carry out an emerald heist and then chased by a corrupt Greek police […]

Nov, 21

The Burglar ***½ (1957, Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy, Phoebe Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 4,677

In her first star role, Jayne Mansfield plays Gladden, sidekick of crook Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea), who sets out to steal the emerald necklace of a Philadelphia spiritualist. The moody 1957 film noir crime thriller […]

Nov, 21

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