Derek Winnert

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Private Information **** (1952, Jill Esmond, Jack Watling, Carol Marsh, Gerard Heinz) – Classic Movie Review 13,756

Jill Esmond stars as a middle-aged English woman who battles against corruption in her local council, in the gripping, ambitious and intelligent 1952 British drama film Private Information. Jill Esmond, Jack Watling, Carol Marsh, and […]

Oct, 12

W.H.I.F.F.S. [Whiffs] (1975, Elliott Gould, Eddie Albert, Harry Guardino, Godfrey Cambridge, Jennifer O’Neill, Alan Manson, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Richard Masur, Howard Hesseman) – Classic Movie Review 13,755

Elliott Gould plays Dudley Frapper, a test subject for nerve gas experiments who turns to crime, in the 1975 American comedy film Whiffs. Director Ted Post’s 1975 American comedy film W.H.I.F.F.S. [Whiffs] stars Elliott Gould, […]

Oct, 10

While I Live [The Dream of Olwen] ** (1947, Sonia Dresdel, Tom Walls, Carol Raye, Clifford Evans, Patricia Burke, John Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 13,754

The 1947 British drama film While I Live stars Sonia Dresdel as a crazed Cornish spinster who becomes convinced that an unknown amnesiac young woman is the reincarnation of her dead composer sister. Director John Harlow’s 1947 British drama film While I […]

Oct, 10

Crime and Punishment USA *** (1959, George Hamilton, Frank Silvera, Mary Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 13,753

‘These are the Young and the Wanton, the Beat and the Bad!’ George Hamilton makes his film début in the 1959 film Crime & Punishment, USA, an updated and relocated version of the 1866 Fyodor Dostoevsky […]

Oct, 08

Crime by Night *** (1944, Jerome Cowan, Jane Wyman, Faye Emerson, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker, Cy Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 13,752

The 1944 American crime thriller film Crime by Night stars Jerome Cowan and Jane Wyman as a private detective and his secretary who are hired to solve an axe murder. Director William Clemens’s 1944 Warner Bros […]

Oct, 08

Find the Blackmailer *** (1943, Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 13,751

The 1943 American crime thriller film Find the Blackmailer stars Jerome Cowan as a private detective hired to track down a blackmailer‘s talking bird. Director D Ross Lederman’s 1943 Warner Bros American crime thriller film Find the […]

Oct, 08

The Great Van Robbery *** (1959, Denis Shaw, Kay Callard, Tony Quinn, Philip Saville, Vera Fusek, Tony Doonan) – Classic Movie Review 13,750

The suspenseful 1959 black-and-white British B-movie crime thriller film The Great Van Robbery stars hefty but nimble Denis Shaw as a globetrotting, judo-throwing Scotland Yard detective on the case of stolen bank notes. Director Max Varnel’s suspenseful […]

Oct, 07

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