Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Framed ***½ (1947, Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley) – Classic Movie Review 4492

Director Richard Wallace’s intriguing and effective 1947 low-budget B-movie film noir crime thriller stars a sexy Janis Carter as sultry femme fatale Paula Craig, who schemes with married man Steve Price (Barry Sullivan) to commit the perfect robbery […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

The Thirty-Nine Steps **** (1978, Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter, David Warner, George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Timothy West) – Classic Movie Review 4,491

Director Don Sharp’s extremely entertaining 1978 third film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps finds its purpose in that it is finally a movie that is faithful to the book and its pre-First World […]

Oct, 19 · in Reviews

The 39 Steps *** (1959, Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, James Hayter, Barry Jones, Faith Brook, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 4490

Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel. Hannay goes on the run […]

Oct, 19

Paula *** (1952, Loretta Young, Tommy Rettig, Kent Smith, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 4489

Loretta Young – the Best Actress Oscar winner for The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) – stars as Paula Rogers in director Rudolph Maté’s well-crafted, if predictable 1952 weepie. In the drama, Paula tries to teach a young lad (Tommy Rettig) […]

Oct, 19

Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] * (1946, Anthony Hulme, Joy Shelton, Tamara Desni, Jack Raine, Beatrice Varley) – Classic Movie Review 4,488

John Argyle’s 1946 British mystery thriller Send for Paul Temple [The Green Finger] gets the Francis Durbridge Paul Temple film series off to a shaky start. Anthony Hulme and Joy Shelton star as novelist Paul […]

Oct, 18

Calling Paul Temple *** (1948, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Abraham Sofaer, Margaretta Scott, Alan Wheatley, Jack Raine) – Classic Movie Review 4487

Director Maclean Rogers’s 1948 British mystery thriller is the welcome, much improved sequel to Send for Paul Temple (1946), based on the radio serial Paul Temple and the Canterbury Case by Frances Durbridge. John Bentley […]

Oct, 18

Paul Temple’s Triumph ** (1950, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Barbara Couper, Hugh Dempster, Dino Galvani) – Classic Movie Review 4486

John Bentley effectively re-creates his role as novelist-sleuth Paul Temple in director Maclean Rogers’s twisty low budget 1950 British mystery thriller based on Francis Durbridge’s radio serial News of Paul Temple. This time Temple, along […]

Oct, 18

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