Derek Winnert

West of Shanghai [The Warlord] *** (1937, Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez, Gordon Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 5628

Director John Farrow’s short (64 minute) 1937 war adventure drama stars Boris Karloff who gives the impression he is hugely enjoying himself cast, as of course he could not be today, as a Chinese warlord, […]

Jun, 18 · in Uncategorized

Two Against the Law [Deux Hommes dans la Ville] [Two Men in Town] **** (1973, Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 5627

French New Wave icon Alain Delon stars in co-writer/ director José Giovanni’s 1973 Franco-Italian drama film as former bank robber and ex-safe cracker Gino Strabliggi, a recently early released prisoner who has served 10 years […]

Jun, 18 · in Reviews

Johnny O’Clock **** (1947, Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J Cobb, Ellen Drew, Nina Foch, Thomas Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 5,626

Dick Powell is on top form as a gambling parlour wise-guy mixed up in murders, in Robert Rossen’s very fine 1947 whodunit crime film noir thriller Johnny O’Clock.  Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1947 Columbia Pictures thriller […]

Jun, 17

The Invisible Menace ** (1938, Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Cy Kendall) – 5623

Director John Farrow’s little 1938 thriller at least has the virtue of starring the great Boris Karloff in his prime. The question in Crane Wilbur’s screenplay is, has US army worker Jevries (Karloff) committed the murder […]

Jun, 17

The Invisible Wall ** (1947, Don Castle, Virginia Christine, Richard Gaines, Arthur Space) – Classic Movie Review 5625

Don Castle stars as Harry Lane, an innocent man with a gambling problem accused of a murder, in director Eugene Ford’s complex and fairly intriguing but only passable 1947 noir mystery thriller, with just a […]

Jun, 17

The Invisible Woman *** (1940, Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 5,624

Universal Pictures’ amusingly silly 1941 sci-fi horror comedy The Invisible Woman stars John Barrymore as mad professor Gibbs, who invents an invisibility machine and makes a model girl (Virginia Bruce) invisible to settle a few […]

Jun, 17

The Hunchback of Notre Dame ***** (1939, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Edmond O’Brien, Alan Marshal, Walter Hampden) – Classic Movie Review 720

‘BIG beyond words!…Wondrous beyond belief!…Magnificent beyond compare!’ This brilliant RKO studio movie from 1939 is simply the best version of the famous Victor Hugo literary classic, lit up by Charles Laughton’s inspired portrayal of Quasimodo, […]

Jun, 17

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