Derek Winnert

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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

Railroaded! *** (1947, John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph) – Classic Movie Review 10,448

Director Anthony Mann’s neat and well-plotted 1947 low-budget crime thriller Railroaded! stars John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, and Jane Randolph. It is an incisive, dour, dark-toned little 40s film-noir mobster tale with John Ireland […]

Oct, 22

The Raid *** (1954, Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 10,447

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1954 Panoramic Productions/ 20th Century Fox Western film The Raid stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Tommy Rettig and Peter Graves. It is shot in beautiful Technicolor colour by […]

Oct, 22

Radio On *** (1979, David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff) – Classic Movie Review 10,446

The 1979 music mystery drama Radio On is a chilly but clever road movie, in which a radio station disc jockey called Robert (played by David Beames) drives from London to Bristol to investigate his […]

Oct, 22

Unnatural Causes *** (1993, Roy Marsden, Simon Chandler, Kenneth Colley, Mel Martin, Bill Nighy, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 10,445

The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]

Oct, 21

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