Derek Winnert

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake *** (1959, Henry Daniell, Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Paul Cavanagh) – Classic Movie Review 5300

Director Edward L Cahn’s 1959 horror movie is a high-gear low-budget black-and-white horror film chiller, with on-form players Henry Daniell, Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, and Paul Cavanagh starring in an amusingly absurd tale […]

Apr, 16 · in Uncategorized

Curse of the Faceless Man *** (1958, Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis Van Rooten, Gar Moore, Felix Locher) – Classic Movie Review 5299

‘Entombed for eons – turned to stone – seeking women, women, women!’ Stone-encrusted Pompeii lava-man Quintillus Aurelius (Bob Bryant) is found petrified in the ground and unearthed by an excavator. He then rises up from […]

Apr, 16 · in Uncategorized

Penitentiary ** (1938, Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 5297

Director John Brahm’s 1938 Columbia Pictures remake of Howard Hawks’s classic prison drama movie The Criminal Code (1931) is watchable but a lesser and largely unnecessary movie. It stars Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat […]

Apr, 15

Convicted *** (1950, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 5298

Director Henry Levin’s satisfactory 1950 Columbia Pictures prison drama is the usual stuff in about convicts in jail. It lacks thrills but it is earnest, sombre, decent and reliably acted by a strong cast. If […]

Apr, 15

The Criminal Code **** (1931, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 5296

Walter Huston gives an excellent star performance as nifty district attorney Mark Brady who, after prosecuting the 20-year-old Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) with a weak murder case and gaining a 20-year conviction against him, becomes […]

Apr, 15

Criminal Court *** (1946, Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, Robert Armstrong, Addison Richards, June Clayworth) – Classic Movie Review 5295

Director Robert Wise’s 1946 mystery thriller is an excellent, short (64 minutes) little B-movie crime programmer from the RKO Radio Pictures studio. Tom Conway stars as lawyer Stephen Barnes who accidentally shoots dead a bent […]

Apr, 15

Mystery Date ** (1991, Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, B D Wong) – Classic Movie Review 5294

Director Jonathan Wacks’s 1991 teen romantic comedy crime drama stars the young Ethan Hawke, who is good as gawky, gauche teenage kid Tom McHugh, who fancies the cute blonde girl next door, Geena Matthews (Teri […]

Apr, 15

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