Derek Winnert

Reviews

The Malpas Mystery ** (1960, Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Keen, Ronald Howard, Sandra Dorne, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 10,226

Maureen Swanson stars in the 1960 crime film The Malpas Mystery, a lively and involving, if fairly routine, British B-movie Edgar Wallace thriller adaptation. Director Sidney Hayers’s 1960 second feature crime film The Malpas Mystery […]

Aug, 26

Malone *** (1987, Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Lauren Hutton, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,225

Director Harley Cokeliss’s 1987 action thriller Malone stars Burt Reynolds in this modern-day Western as Malone, an ex-CIA hitman who uncovers a right-wing plot to seize control of the US government after his breaks down […]

Aug, 25

Heat *** (1986, Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 10,224

Directors Dick Richards and (uncredited) Jerry Jameson’s 1986 neo-noir action crime thriller Heat stars Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman and Diana Scarwid. William Goldman scripts Heat from his own 1985 novel, a […]

Aug, 25

A Hatful of Rain *** (1957, Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 10,223

Hollywood takes a deep breath and tackles the drug-addiction problem in director Fred Zinnemann’s affecting, intelligent 1957 film A Hatful of Rain, with Don Murray expertly tugging at the emotions as Johnny Pope, a young […]

Aug, 25

Crime and Punishment *** (1935, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray) – Classic Movie Review 10,222

Director Pierre Chenal’s 1935 black and white crime drama Crime and Punishment [Crime et Châtiment] is the simultaneously filmed French version of the Fyodor Dostoevsky classic novel, while Josef Von Sternberg was making his Hollywood […]

Aug, 25

Crime and Punishment *** (1935, Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 10,221

Josef Von Sternberg brings his customary eye for moody atmosphere to the 1935 crime drama Crime and Punishment, his film of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel, and he is abetted by electrifying performances from Peter Lorre, […]

Aug, 25

Creator *** (1985, Peter O’Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,220

Director Ivan Passer’s 1985 film Creator is a surprisingly affecting sci-fi romantic comedy, with Peter O’Toole ideally cast as Dr Harry Wolper, a dotty biologist who still loves his wife 30 years after she died […]

Aug, 25

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