Derek Winnert

Dr Renault’s Secret **½ (1942, J Carrol Naish, John Shepperd, George Zucco, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5074

‘HALF-MAN…HALF-MONSTER!…A strange tale torn out of the depths of terror! His animal instinct cannot be tamed!’ George Zucco stars as the creepy Doctor Robert Renault, who has invented a technique mixing a secret serum with […]

Feb, 27 · in Reviews

Dr Socrates **½ (1935, Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, John Eldredge) – Classic Movie Review 5073

‘ARMED WITH A DOCTOR’S KIT, HE FACED 1000 KILLERS!’ Director William Dieterle’s 1935 romantic crime drama stars Paul Muni as Dr Lee Cardwell, an American small-town doctor-surgeon who operates to remove bullets from Red Bastian (Barton […]

Feb, 27 · in Reviews

Weird Science *** (1985, Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 5,072

Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith are the engaging stars of John Hughes’s wacky 1985 teen comedy about high school nerds who use their computer to conjure up their dream girl (Kelly LeBrock). ‘It’s all […]

Feb, 27

True Lies **** (1994, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton, Art Malik, Tom Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 5071

So Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new James Bond in 1994, or at any rate somebody very like 007, in director James Cameron’s relentlessly paced, spoofy-toned, escapist gung-ho action thriller. Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) leads a double life […]

Feb, 27

San Quentin **½ (1937, Pat O’Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 5070

Humphrey Bogart is in trouble again in prison – San Quentin – in director Lloyd Bacon’s moderate 1937 film noir-style jail movie, in which he plays hardened inmate ‘Red’ Kennedy, sentenced to jail for robbery. Meanwhile […]

Feb, 27

The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse **** (1938, Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 5069

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1938 black comedy gangster movie is based on the play by Barré Lyndon and stars Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins and Donald Crisp. Robinson enjoys himself greatly in […]

Feb, 26

Tokyo Joe *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly, Alexander Knox, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5,068

Humphrey Bogart stars in the 1949 film noir crime thriller Tokyo Joe as American veteran Joe Barrett, who returns to Tokyo after World War Two to try to resume his life as part-owner of a […]

Feb, 26

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