Derek Winnert

The Lawless [The Dividing Line] **** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Gail Russell, Johnny Sands) – Classic Movie Review 5845

Director Joseph Losey spins a strong, intriguing story, and keeps his 1950 film noir drama The Lawless neat, sprightly and buoyant with very solid performances, particularly Macdonald Carey, who is rarely as inspired like this. […]

Aug, 02 · in Uncategorized

Time without Pity **** (1957, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen, Leo McKern, Ann Todd, Peter Cushing) – Classic Movie Review 5,844

Michael Redgrave stars in Joseph Losey’s 1957 film noir Time without Pity as a hard-drinking father, who comes to London to see if he can rescue his son (Alec McCowen) from execution for murder.  Joseph […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

The Criminal [Concrete Jungle] **** (1960, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 5843

Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]

Aug, 02

Boom! *** (1968, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 5842

The making of Boom! is a comedy horror story of posh, intelligent people letting their hair down in public. With all the excesses and extravagancies of the Sixties, maybe it is meant to be funny, […]

Aug, 02

Blind Date [Chance Meeting] *** (1959, Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, Robert Flemyng, Gordon Jackson, John Van Eyssen, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 5841

Director Joseph Losey’s smart 1959 British murder mystery Blind Date [Chance Meeting], mostly told in flashback, stars Hardy Kruger as Jan Van Rooyer, a young Dutch painter in London who discovers the body of his […]

Aug, 02

The Big Night *** (1951, John Barrymore Jr, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring, Howard St John, Dorothy Comingore) – Classic Movie Review 5840

John Barrymore Jr [aka John Drew Barrymore] makes something of his first starring role as a stereotypical Fifties misunderstood teenager, in that era of crazy mixed-up kids, in Joseph Losey’s 1951 American film noir The Big […]

Aug, 02

The Assassination of Trotsky ** (1972, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 5839

Something has gone wrong here with director Joseph Losey’s plodding, unmoving 1972 film about the last days of Leon Trotsky (a somewhat miscast Richard Burton) in a Mexican fortress in 1940. Alain Delon plays his […]

Aug, 02

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