Derek Winnert

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Mr Moto in Danger Island ** (1939, Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt, Amanda Duff) – Classic Movie Review 11,990

Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1939 American mystery crime thriller Mr Moto in Danger Island is the seventh movie in the enjoyable 20th Century Fox casebook series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as the Japanese sleuth […]

Mar, 08

Idol of Paris * (1948, Beryl Baxter, Christine Norden, Michael Rennie, Margaretta Scott) – Classic Movie Review 11,978

Director Leslie Arliss’s 1948 British film Idol of Paris about a mid-19th century French courtesan called Theresa stars Beryl Baxter, Christine Norden, Michael Rennie, Margaretta Scott. Leslie Arliss, director of some of the famous 1940s Gainsborough Pictures […]

Mar, 03

I’ll Be Your Sweetheart *** (1945, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Rennie, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, Moore Marriott) – Classic Movie Review 11,977

Writer-director Val Guest’s British 1945 Gainsborough Pictures black and white historical musical film I’ll Be Your Sweetheart stars Margaret Lockwood, Michael Rennie, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, and Moore Marriott. Music piracy proves an odd but intriguing […]

Mar, 03

They Were Sisters *** (1945, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray, Anne Crawford, Hugh Sinclair, Peter Murray-Hill) – Classic Movie Review 11,976

Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1945 British black and white melodrama film They Were Sisters is based on a 1943 novel by Dorothy Whipple, and stars James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray, Anne Crawford, Hugh Sinclair and […]

Mar, 03

The First Power **½ (1990, Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson) – Classic Movie Review 11,975

Writer-director Robert Resnikoff’s 1990 American neo-noir horror thriller film The First Power stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober and Mykelti Williamson. The intense Phillips is fine as Detective Russell Logan, the cop who […]

Mar, 02

Split Second *** (1992, Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Ian Drury) – Classic Movie Review 11,974

Director Tony Maylam’s 1992 British/ US science fiction action horror thriller film Split Second stars Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, and Ian Drury. Rutger Hauer stars as a burnt-out […]

Mar, 02

Splitting Heirs * (1993, Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese, Eric Sykes, Stratford Johns, Brenda Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 11,973

Eric Idle is supposed to be a young man called Tommy cheated out of his inheritance by American-raised impostor Henry (Rick Moranis), with whom he was swapped at birth. So he connives with Moranis’s fiancée […]

Mar, 02

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