Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "spy thriller"

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The Amateur * (1981, John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller) – Classic Movie Review 12,569

Charles Jarrott’s Canadian 1982 film The Amateur. The 1982 film The Amateur stars John Savage, Christopher Plummer and Marthe Keller. The classy cast works hard but is largely at a loss in this muddled spy […]

Jul, 08

Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] **** (1985, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Fulton Mackay, Bill Paterson, David Calder, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 9677

Director David Drury’s outstanding political conspiracy thriller Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] furrowed a few brows in London’s Whitehall government district on its release in 1985. Gabriel Byrne stars in his career-making […]

Apr, 26

The Kremlin Letter ** (1970, George Sanders, Richard Boone, Orson Welles, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Patrick O’Neal, Ronald Radd, Dean Jagger, Nigel Green, Barbara Parkins, Lila Kedrova) – Classic Movie Review 6507

John Huston’s 1970 Cold War spy thriller film The Kremlin Letter is an endearing farrago of a film from a legendary top-quality film-maker who should have been able to sort this mess out.  Co-writer/ co-producer/ […]

Jan, 01

Permission to Kill [The Executioner] ** (1975, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton, Bekim Fehmiu, Frederic Forrest, Nicole Calfan) – Classic Movie Review 4597

Director Cyril Frankel’s dreary, dour and preposterous 1975 spy thriller was a setback to its star Dirk Bogarde, then at the peak of his serious movie career after Victim (1961), The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965), Accident (1967), […]

Nov, 06

The 39 Steps *** (1959, Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, James Hayter, Barry Jones, Faith Brook, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 4490

Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel. Hannay goes on the run […]

Oct, 19

Little Red Monkey ***½ (1955, Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 3,890

‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, very nifty, and extremely enjoyable little Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona […]

Jun, 19

Crack-Up *** (1936, Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan, Thomas Beck, Kay Linaker) – Classic Movie Review 3.322

Director Malcolm St Clair’s tense and entertaining 1936 espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Peter Lorre as Colonel Gimpy, a ruthless spy boss whose organisation of dastardly foreign spies is trying to get its hands on the […]

Feb, 04

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