Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Drifter *** (1988, Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Miles O’Keeffe, Al Shannon, Anna Garduno, Loren Haynes, Larry Brand) – Classic Movie Review 12,103

The 1988 Roger Corman-produced film The Drifter is a tense, eerie, credible thriller about unattached fashion designer Julia Robbins (Kim Delaney) who gives a hitchhiker named Trey (Miles O’Keeffe) a lift, and lives to regret […]

May, 07

Driftwood * (1997, James Spader, Anne Brochet) – Classic Movie Review 12,102

James Spader drifts out of luck with the arty-farty 1997 Misery clone thriller film Driftwood.  Director Ronan O’Leary’s 1997 thriller Driftwood is an arty-farty Misery clone, with an amnesiac man (James Spader) washed up on […]

May, 06

Driftwood **** (1947, Natalie Wood, Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Jerome Cowan, H B Warner, Margaret Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 12,101

The nine-year-old Natalie Wood gives a super show of winning acting in this thoroughly enjoyable homespun drama.  Producer-director Allan Dwan’s prestige 1947 drama Driftwood stars Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, and Natalie […]

May, 06

Thunderbolt *** (1929, George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 12,100

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1929 film Thunderbolt [At the Gates of Death] is a tough, glum gangster picture, with the cops rounding up mobster Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft, who was Oscar nominated for Best Actor). […]

May, 06

Underworld ***** (1927, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 12,099

Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]

May, 06

The Dressmaker **** (1988, Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 12,098

Stand by for acting fireworks! Director Jim O’Brien’s 1988 British drama film The Dressmaker is set in England during the Second World War, and stars Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, and Pete […]

May, 05

The Woman One Longs For [Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt] *** (1929, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning) – Classic Movie Review 12,097

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s visually dynamic and emotionally dark 1929 German silent melodrama film The Woman One Longs For [Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt] stars Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, and […]

May, 04

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