Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Lady in the Morgue *** (1938, Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Patricia Ellis) – Classic Movie Review 12,160

‘DETECTIVE BILL CRANE AGAIN!… Wise-cracking around for clues… And making them fit.. In a thrill-filled mystery drama!’ Director Otis Garrett’s well-made 1938 Universal Pictures B-movie murder mystery film noir thriller The Lady in the Morgue […]

Jun, 06

Parole, Inc ** (1948, Michael O’Shea, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers) – Classic Movie Review 12,159

‘Sensational! Shocking! The inside story of the Nation’s Worst Crime Plot!’ Parole officers fight gangsters infiltrating the US parole system in the 1948 film noir crime thriller Parole, Inc. Director Alfred Zeisler’s low-budget 1948 black […]

Jun, 06

A Night to Remember **** (1942, Loretta Young, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 12,158

The 1942 comic murder mystery film A Night to Remember is full of zest, zip and zing. Loretta Young and Brian Aherne star as a New York thriller-writing couple who discover a body at their […]

Jun, 05

Song of Surrender **½ (1949, Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey) – Classic Movie Review 12,157

Claude Rains again stars as a tyrant bullying his much younger wife, in the 1949 romantic melodrama Song of Surrender. Director Mitchell Leisen’s slickly played 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic melodrama Song of […]

Jun, 04

The Seventh Survivor *** (1941, Linden Travers, Austin Trevor, John Stuart, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell, Jane Carr, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 12,156

A WW2 passenger ship is torpedoed and six survivors plus the captain of the U-boat that sank the ship make it to a British lighthouse. One of the survivors is a German spy and another […]

Jun, 02

Just Off Broadway *** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter) – Classic Movie Review 12,155

Phil Silvers plays annoying news photographer Roy Higgins, who gets in the way of private detective Michael Shayne, in Lloyd Nolan’s penultimate film appearance in the series.  Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1942 black and white […]

Jun, 01

Dressed to Kill *** (1941, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 12,154

Private investigator Michael Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a woman screaming from a room in their hotel, where the maid has discovered two dead theatrical folk, one wearing a dog costume […]

Jun, 01

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