Derek Winnert

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Blackmailed ** (1951, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 9707

A good yarn based on Elizabeth Myers’s novel Mrs Christopher becomes a rather artificial and tame British thriller in 1951 as Blackmailed, but with a good, hard-working cast headed by Dirk Bogarde and Mai Zetterling, […]

May, 03

Open Season [Los Cazadores] * (1974, Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, William Holden, Cornelia Sharpe) – Classic Movie Review 9088

Director Peter Collinson’s violent, nasty and distasteful 1974 action thriller drama Open Season [Los Cazadores] is based on the novel The All Americans by David D Osborn, and stars Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, […]

Nov, 22

The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal] ** (1996, Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi) – Classic Movie Review 8156

Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a homicide detective, who unwittingly suffers from the dizzy-making Stendhal Syndrome of the title, battling a serial rapist-killer, in the 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal]. It […]

Feb, 20

Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront] ** (1952, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 4,485

John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis, in the 1952 British thriller film Paul Temple Returns. John […]

Oct, 18

Invasion of the Saucer Men [Invasion of the Hell Creatures] ** (1957, Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton, Ed Nelson, Lyn Osborn, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 3759

Joan: ‘I expected to be frightened on my wedding night, but nothing like this.’ Director Edward L Cahn’s no-budget 1957 US sci-fi thriller movie has some irresistible choice ingredients on offer: tiny aliens with giant […]

May, 27

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death ** (2014, Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Helen McCrory) – Movie Review

It’s now 40 years after the events of 2012’s original with the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, and World War Two London is being bombed by the Germans in the Blitz. So a group of […]

Dec, 31

Victim ***** (1961, Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Peter McEnery, Dennis Price, John Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 606

Encouragingly, Victim (1961) was popular, and made a profit. Better still, it was influential in changing attitudes and the laws in Britain regarding homosexuality. In 1961 closeted gay actor Dirk Bogarde took a huge risk […]

Jan, 01

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