Derek Winnert

Nightfall **** (1956, Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, James Gregory, Jocelyn Brando, Frank Albertson, Rudy Bond, George Cisar) – Classic Movie Review 5,216

Jacques Tourneur’s tense and suspenseful 1956 cult classic film noir thriller Nightfall stars screen tough guy Aldo Ray, who triumphs in casting against type as Jim Vanning, a guiltless victim finding gangsters’ bank heist loot. […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

Bedtime Story *** (1964, David Niven, Marlon Brando, Shirley Jones) Classic Movie Review 5215

Director Ralph Levy’s original 1964 comedy Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando as a pair of upstaging rival French Riviera gigolo conmen is now known better as the basis for its 1988 remake […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels **** (1988, Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris) – Classic Movie Review 5214

Director Frank Oz’s delicious 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels stars a perfect team in Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly. Caine plays a suave Englishman named Lawrence Jamieson who preys on wealthy widows by posing […]

Mar, 29

New York, New York ***** (1977, Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli, Lionel Stander, Mary Kay Place, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 5,213

Martin Scorsese’s stylish 1977 American musical drama film New York, New York is a tribute to his home town of New York City and old Hollywood movies, and stars tremendous Liza Minnelli and Robert De […]

Mar, 28

New York Confidential **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Maxwell, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5212

Broderick Crawford and Anne Bancroft star in the tremendous hardboiled 1955 gangster movie New York Confidential. Co-writer/ director Russell Rouse’s tremendous hardboiled 1955 gangster movie New York Confidential is both revealing and exciting. It tells […]

Mar, 28

Baby It’s You **** (1982, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin) – Classic Movie Review 5211

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1982 romantic comedy drama is an extremely pleasing 1960s-set high school story about two mismatched lovers – an Italian boy with serious clothes an an attitude problem and the pretty Jewish schoolgirl […]

Mar, 28

The Age of Shadows **** (2016, Byung-hun Lee, Yoo Gong, Kang-ho Song) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jee-woon Kim’s 2016 South Korean thriller is tense, thrilling and beautifully staged and photographed, with a marvellous late-1920s period production. The extended climactic action sequence on the train is a real, nail-biting humdinger. Based […]

Mar, 28

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