Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

Don’t Bother to Knock *** (1952, Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran, Jeanne Cagney, Jim Backus, Lurene Tuttle, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 5210

The 1952 film noir psychological mystery thriller stars Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe, who gives a remarkably convincing performance in a very difficult and peculiar role as a New York City hotel’s shy-seeming unhinged babysitter. […]

Mar, 28

Macabre ** (1958, William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White) – Classic Movie Review 5209

Producer-director William Castle’s 1958 movie is based on a 12-handed Mystery Writers of America novel The Marble Forest, though it is credited to one writer, Anthony Boucher (as Theo Durrant). The movie tells a dull, clumsy […]

Mar, 28

Charlotte Gray ** (2001, Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden) – Classic Movie Review 5208

Cate Blanchett impresses as a Scottish clerk, who in 1943 goes to France, joins the resistance (led by Billy Crudup) and helps two Jewish boys. Exciting bursts of tough action enliven this routine, slackly paced […]

Mar, 28

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit **** (1956, Gregory Peck, Fredric March, Jennifer Jones, Marisa Pavan, Lee J Cobb, Keenan Wynn, Gene Lockhart, Gigi Perreau) – Classic Movie Review 5207

Writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thoughtful 1956 drama stars Gregory Peck as Tom Rath, who lives in Connecticut but commutes to work in Manhattan. He gets a higher paid, higher stress job with a big TV network and […]

Mar, 27

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