Derek Winnert

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The Spider *** (1931, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge, George E Stone, Earle Foxe) – Classic Movie Review 11,387

THRILL to the most amazing mystery of your life as a lurid web is woven around the helpless victims of… EDMUND LOWE in THE SPIDER (1931). Directors William Cameron Menzies and Kenneth MacKenna’s intricate, imaginatively […]

Jul, 13

A Separate Peace *** (2004, J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,383

Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]

Jul, 12

The Angel Levine *** (1970, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O’Shea, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 11,382

Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]

Jul, 11

The Brothers Karamazov ** (1958, Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Richard Basehart, William Shatner, Claire Bloom, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 11,375

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1958 Metrocolor film The Brothers Karamazov turns Fedor Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel into a busy melodrama of a boorish Russian father’s murder, the false imprisonment of one of his three illegitimate sons, boisterous army […]

Jul, 08

Brown on Resolution [Forever England] **** (1935, John Mills, Betty Balfour, Barry Mackay, Jimmy Hanley) – Classic Movie Review 11,374

Director Walter Forde’s 1936 British war film Brown on Resolution [Forever England] stars John Mills, who embodies the character of brave sailor he did so well – here Albert Brown, who joins the Royal Navy […]

Jul, 08

Blackmail ** (1939, Edward G Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart) Classic Movie Review 11,372

Director H C Potter’s 1939 black and white crime drama film Blackmail stars the ever dependable Edward G Robinson, who enlivens a routinely scripted but neatly handled B-movie thriller as an oil well firefighter called […]

Jul, 07

Blast of Silence **** (1961, Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clume) – Classic Movie Review 11,371

‘An Unforgettable Experience in Suspense!… As the Seconds Tick Off a Timetable for MURDER!’ The 1961 American black and white neo noir crime thriller Blast of Silence is written and directed by and stars Allen […]

Jul, 06

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