Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "espionage"

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Conspirator * (1949, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, Marjorie Fielding, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 11,379

Director Victor Saville’s undistinguished 1949 American-British film noir suspense espionage crime thriller film Conspirator stars Robert Taylor as British Guards officer Major Michael Curragh, who is a Russian Communist spy (you can tell because he […]

Jul, 10

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

I Was a Spy *** (1933, Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 10,829

‘TO ANSWER THE LURE OF HER LIPS WAS FATAL!’ Director Victor Saville’s 1933 I Was a Spy stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, a real-life World War One nurse who in German-occupied Belgium in 1914 […]

Jan, 25

Assignment K * (1968, Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Jeremy Kemp, Jane Merrow) – Classic Movie Review 10,514

Director Val Guest’s mostly dull and dreary 1968 British spy thriller Assignment K stars Stephen Boyd in a dull and dreary performance as toy company boss Philip Scott, secretly the head of a British spy […]

Nov, 08

Let’s Get Laid * (1978, Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, Linda Hayden) – Classic Movie Review 10,392

‘Gordon Laid is getting stuck in some very tight places.’ Director James Kenelm Clarke’s tame and tawdry 1978 British sex comedy film Let’s Get Laid stars Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel and Linda Hayden, […]

Oct, 08

Justine *** (1969, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Michael York, John Vernon, Anna Karina, Philippe Noiret, Robert Forster, Jack Albertson, Cliff Gorman, George Baker) – Classic Movie Review 9722

Director George Cukor’s wobbly but intriguing and colourful romantic mystery drama Justine is the 1969 film version of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, with Anouk Aimée starring as the enigmatic Justine, married to wealthy Coptic banker […]

May, 06

Smiley’s People **** (1982, Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9660

Director Simon Langton’s 1982 TV mini-series Smiley’s People is the eagerly awaited sequel to the 1979 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which this time has a surprisingly thin plot (at least for this running time of […]

Apr, 21

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