Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Boy Cried Murder ** (1966, Fraser MacIntosh, Veronica Hurst, Phil Brown) – Classic Movie Review 12,089

The 1966 thriller film The Boy Cried Murder is a remake of the much admired 1949 film The Window, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novelette. Former child actor turned director George P Breakston’s uninspired 1966 British/ […]

Apr, 29

Desert Hell ** (1958, Brian Keith, Barbara Hale, Richard Denning, Johnny Desmond) – Classic Movie Review 12,088

‘The Stormy Saga of the Legion of the Damned!’ Director Charles Marquis Warren’s basic but proficient 1958 American action adventure film Desert Hell stars Brian Keith, Barbara Hale, Richard Denning, Johnny Desmond, Phillip Pine and […]

Apr, 28

The Student of Prague [Der Student von Prag] **** (1926, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Elizza La Porta) – Classic Movie Review 12,087

Conrad Veidt stars as The Student Balduin in the 1926 German Expressionist silent horror film classic The Student of Prague [Der Student von Prag] directed by Henrik Galeen in his most important film and his […]

Apr, 27

The Hands of Orlac [Orlacs Hände] ***** (1924, Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina) – Classic Movie Review 12,086

Conrad Veidt stars in director Robert Wiene’s splendid pioneering 1924 Austrian silent classic Expressionist horror film The Hands of Orlac [Orlacs Hände] as Paul Orlac, a concert pianist who loses his hands in a railway […]

Apr, 27

So Dear to My Heart *** (1948, Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey Sr, Luana Patten, Bobby Driscoll) – Classic Movie Review 12,085

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1948 Walt Disney American live-action animated feature children’s film So Dear To My Heart is based on the story Midnight and Jeremiah by Sterling North. It stars Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Harry […]

Apr, 26

They Made Her a Spy ** (1939, Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber, Frank M Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 12,084

‘UNCLE SAM CRACKS DOWN ON SPIES! A lone woman risks life – for love – and sweet vengeance!’ Director Jack Hively’s RKO Radio Pictures 1939 American black and white spy drama film They Made Her […]

Apr, 26

When I Grow Up *** (1951, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Preston, Martha Scott, Charley Grapewin) – Classic Movie Review 12,083

When I Grow Up (1951) is the only film directed by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Michael Kanin.  Writer-director Michael Kanin’s 1951 drama When I Grow Up stars Bobby Driscoll, Robert Preston, Charley Grapewin, Martha Scott, Sherry Jackson, Johnny McGovern and Frances […]

Apr, 25

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