Derek Winnert

The Outfit ***** (1973, Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 5,278

The sweaty-palm, nerve-jangling 1973 neo noir crime thriller film The Outfit stars Robert Duvall as career criminal Earl Macklin, based on novelist Donald E Westlake’s character Parker. Joe Don Baker plays a friendly heavy called […]

Apr, 10 · in Reviews

Act of Violence **** (1949, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 5277

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]

Apr, 10 · in Uncategorized

Raw Deal ***½ (1948, Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 5,276

Anthony Mann’s rousing 1948 film noir crime drama Raw Deal stars Dennis O’Keefe as a convict who breaks out of prison with help from his girlfriend (Claire Trevor) and is hounded both by the police […]

Apr, 10

The Border ***½ (1982, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 5275

Director Tony Richardson’s 1982 desperately dour and downbeat thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a bored and corrupt US Border Patrol agent called Charlie Smith, who is guarding the Mexican border. He operates on the fuzzy side […]

Apr, 10

Border Incident ***½ (1949, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 5274

Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir crime thriller lifts a mundane yarn about the law versus illegal Mexican immigrants by shooting it in a sharply realist fashion with John Alton’s noir-style black and white photography. […]

Apr, 10

Edge of Doom ** (1950, Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith, Paul Stewart, Mala Powers) – Classic Movie Review 5273

Farley Granger stars as disturbed young Martin Lynn who has a conscience attack after he kills a priest in director Mark Robson’s peculiar 1950 religious film noir thriller, based on a novel by Leo Brady, […]

Apr, 10

Les Visiteurs du Soir ***** (1942, Arletty, Alain Cuny, Fernand Ledoux, Marie Déa, Marcel Herrand, Jules Berry) Classic Movie Review 5272

Arletty and Alain Cuny star as minstrels Dominique and Gilles in this enchanting 1942 wartime classic from director Marcel Carné. They arrive at the Baron Hugues (Fernand Ledoux)’s castle in 1485 while the betrothal of […]

Apr, 09

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