Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Insider **** (1999, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe and Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 12,225

The 1999 film The Insider stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe and Christopher Plummer, and is a superb, stylish real-life thriller given plenty of full-throttle treatment by director Michael Mann, who also made Heat with Pacino. […]

Jul, 08

The Jericho Mile **** (1979, Peter Strauss, Roger E Mosley, Brian Dennehy, Richard Lawson, Geoffrey Lewis, Billy Green Bush, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 12,224

Co-writer/ director Michael Mann’s 1979 triple Emmy Award-winning US made for TV crime drama film The Jericho Mile stars Peter Strauss, who compels the attention as Murphy, an angry convicted killer given a chance to […]

Jul, 08

What a Woman! [The Beautiful Cheat] ** (1943, Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, Ann Savage, Alan Dinehart) – Classic Movie Review 12,223

Ann Savage features with Rosalind Russell in What a Woman!, one of a dozen films with Savage released in 1943. Director Irving Cummings’s 1943 American romantic comedy film What a Woman! [The Beautiful Cheat] is made […]

Jul, 07

Scared Stiff ** (1945, Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 12,222

Director Frank McDonald’s willing but weak 1945 American comedy murder mystery film Scared Stiff [Treasure of Fear] from Pine-Thomas Productions, is released by Paramount Pictures, and stars Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann […]

Jul, 07

Wing Commander ** (1999, Freddie Prinz Jr, Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow, David Suchet, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 12,221

Freddie Prinze Jr recalled: ‘I can’t stand Wing Commander. I can’t watch one scene of that movie. I went on location and they said “Here’s the new script”. It was a piece of crap.’  Chalk […]

Jul, 06

Surrender ** (1950, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Francis Lederer, Jane Darwell, William Ching, Maria Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,220

‘STORY OF AN AMORAL WOMAN!’ The great Vera Ralston stars as sultry, amoral go-getter Violet Barton in the entertaining little 1950 Republic Pictures studios black and white Western film Surrender, expertly directed by cult favourite […]

Jul, 06

The Narrowing Circle *** (1956, Paul Carpenter, Hazel Court, Russell Napier, Trevor Reid, Ferdy Mayne) – Classic Movie Review 12,219

Paul Carpenter stars as a crime writer who finds himself accused of murder and has to clear his name with the help of an alluring colleague (Hazel Court), in the entertaining 1956 British crime thriller […]

Jul, 05

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