Derek Winnert

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Escapement [The Electronic Monster] ** (1958, Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Peter Illing, Carl Jaffe, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 10,458

The intriguing 1958 British sci-fi thriller film Escapement [The Electronic Monster] stars Rod Cameron as an insurance investigator who goes sniffing about after a film star dies in a car crash in the south of […]

Oct, 25

My Brother’s Keeper **½ (1948, Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, David Tomlinson, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 10,457

Director Alfred Roome’s familiar but sturdy 1948 British crime melodrama My Brother’s Keeper is grippingly handled, with a fine performance by George Cole offsetting Jack Warner’s slightly less convincing turn, cast against his usual nice-guy […]

Oct, 24

The Escort [Mauvaise Passe] ** (1999, Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Frances Barber, Ben Whishaw) – Classic Movie Review 10,456

Director Michel Blanc’s 1999 France UK film The Escort [Mauvaise Passe] stars Daniel Auteuil as a poverty-stricken French writer called Pierre, who becomes a male escort in London, where he finds his new lifestyle more appealing […]

Oct, 24

My Brother Tom *** (2001, Jenna Harrison, Ben Whishaw, Honeysuckle Weeks) – Classic Movie Review 10,455

Director Dom Rotheroe’s 2001 film My Brother Tom stars Jenna Harrison and Ben Whishaw. Fine acting smoothes over some of the bumps in the path of this tricky drama about a middle-class teenage girl, Jessica […]

Oct, 24

The Devil’s in Love ** (1933, Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne, Robert Barrat, C Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin, J Carrol Naish, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 10,454

‘He ran away from life… from the past… from love! Until he met a girl who gave him courage to face fate.’ German-born director William Dieterle [Wilhelm Dieterle]’s 1933 The Devil’s in Love stars Victor […]

Oct, 23

Night of Terror ** (1933, Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Tully Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 10,453

‘A mad murdering midnight menace! ‘ Director Benjamin Stoloff’s quaintly entertaining 1933 Bryan Foy Productions/ Columbia Pictures Old Dark House murder mystery horror film Night of Terror [He Lived to Kill] [Terror in the Night] stars Bela […]

Oct, 23

International House **** (1933, W C Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 10,452

Director A Edward Sutherland’s hilarious, ramshackle 1933 comedy film International House stars W C Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin, and George Burns and Gracie Allen, and is released by Paramount Pictures as […]

Oct, 23

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