Derek Winnert

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A Haunting in Venice **½ (2023, Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh) – Classic Movie Review 12,643

Agatha Christie’s 1969 detective novel Hallowe’en Party is re-titled, reworked and transposed from England to Venice as the third of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot films, the 2023 mystery crime drama A Haunting in Venice. Agatha […]

Sep, 16

Bunco Squad ** (1950, Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley) – Classic Movie Review 11,665

Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1950 American crime film thriller Bunco Squad is written by George Callahan, based on the novel Fortuneer by Reginald Taviner, and stars Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez, Douglas Fowley and Elisabeth Risdon. […]

Oct, 20

Night of Terror ** (1933, Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Tully Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 10,453

‘A mad murdering midnight menace! ‘ Director Benjamin Stoloff’s quaintly entertaining 1933 Bryan Foy Productions/ Columbia Pictures Old Dark House murder mystery horror film Night of Terror [He Lived to Kill] [Terror in the Night] stars Bela […]

Oct, 23

Charlie Chan’s Secret ** (1936, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley) – Classic Movie Review 9038

Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]

Oct, 31

London Belongs to Me [Dulcimer Street] **** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8642

Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]

Jun, 26

The Halfway House **** (1944, Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Alfred Drayton, Guy Middleton, Sally Ann Howes, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 8163

Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]

Feb, 22

Long Time Dead ** (2002, Joe Absolom, Tom Bell, Lara Belmont, Lukas Haas) – Classic Movie Review 4791

Though burdened with a heavy cargo of silliness, co-storywriter/director Marcus Adams’s 2002 British horror chiller is often quite skilful and creepy. Joe Absolom, Tom Bell, Lara Belmont and America’s Lukas Haas are among those in deadly […]

Dec, 17

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