Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "evidence"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "evidence".

Body of Evidence * (1992, Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9411

The body in question is Madonna’s and we get to see an awful lot of it in director Uli Edel’s disastrous 1992 erotic courtroom thriller Body of Evidence. Madonna won the 1994 Razzie Award for […]

Feb, 22

Kid Glove Killer **** (1942, Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 7243

Debut director Fred Zinnemann’s finely honed, tensely atmospheric 1942 film noir suspense thriller Kid Glove Killer stars Van Heflin, who gives a nifty turn in an early star role as Gordon McKay, a police forensic […]

Jul, 02

The Range Feud ** (1931, Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 5483

Director D Ross Lederman’s 1931 Buck Jones Western may be just a cheap, assembly-line movie but it is briskly handled and entertaining. Disaster strikes when the new sheriff in town, Buck Gordon (Buck Jones), has no […]

May, 19

Dead Man’s Chest ** (1965, John Thaw, Ann Firbank, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 3817

John Thaw stars in the 1965 film thriller Dead Man’s Chest as newspaperman David Jones, who finds things go very wrong when he pretends to commit his colleague (John Meillon)’s murder to make a point […]

Jun, 07

The Big Combo **** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 2,569

Joseph H Lewis’s classic 1955 B-movie film noir thriller The Big Combo is ultra-tough for its day. It pushed a few boundaries and got into censorship problems with its slant on a regulation tale about […]

Jun, 07

Compulsion **** (1959, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, E G Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 1,674

Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides an engrossing and distinguished version of the deeply disturbing 1924 Chicago Leopold and Loeb murder case. Director Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides […]

Sep, 14

Before and After *** (Liam Neeson, Meryl Streep, Edward Furlong) – Classic Movie Review 1468

Director Barbet Schroeder’s 1996 fast-paced dramatic thriller stars Liam Neeson as a well-respected American father who fights with his wife (Meryl Streep) and daughter (Julia Weldon) when their teenage son, New England boy Jacob (Edward Furlong), […]

Jul, 25

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.