Derek Winnert

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke ** (1936, Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D J Williams ) – Classic Movie Review 5881

Producer-director George King’s 1936 British murder thriller melodrama stars Tod Slaughter, who barnstorms back into action as Stephen Hawke, a kind-seeming Regency moneylender revealed as The Spine Breaker, the murderer who has rampaged through London. […]

Aug, 08 · in Uncategorized

Crimewave *** (1985, Louise Lasser, Paul L Smith, Brion James) – Classic Movie Review 5880

Writer-director Sam Raimi joins forces with the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, for the script of this strange, knockabout, 1985 black-comedy thriller, gleefully infested with spoof slapstick goofball absurd black humour. Oddball actors Paul L […]

Aug, 08 · in Uncategorized

Crimetime * (1996, Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost) – Classic Movie Review 5876

Stephen Baldwin stars as a much-resting young actor who develops a growing empathy with a supposed real-life serial killer (Pete Postlethwaite) he takes a job portraying on a TV show that re-creates the killer’s crimes. […]

Aug, 08

Crimes of the Heart *** (1986, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, Hurd Hatfield) – Classic Movie Review 5875

Beth Henley reworks her own Pulitzer-prizewinning play as a vehicle for three of Hollywood’s top Eighties stars, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek as Lenny, Meg and Becky ‘Babe’ Magrath, eccentric Southern sisters undergoing […]

Aug, 07

Christopher Columbus: The Discovery * (1992, Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface, Rachel Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5874

It was made to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America in 1492, but the discovery here is, unfortunately, that director John Glen’s 1992 movie is a turkey. It is afflicted by a […]

Aug, 07

The Ugly American *** (1962, Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle, Arthur Hill, Jocelyn Brando) – Classic Movie Review 5873

Producer-director George Englund’s 1962 political adventure drama stars Marlon Brando as articulate American publisher and scholar Harrison MacWhite, who is sent to South East Asian country Sarkan as US ambassador. This is an interesting situation but the […]

Aug, 07

The Nightcomers ** (1971, Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5,872

Michael Winner filmed with some of cinema’s biggest names – here in the 1971 British horror film The Nightcomers it is Marlon Brando. The ever-enterprising producer-director Michael Winner was a great entrepreneur and managed to […]

Aug, 07

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