Derek Winnert

The Man Who Never Was **** (1956, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern, André Morell, Geoffrey Keen, William Russell) – Classic Movie Review 3,773

The engaging 1956 British wartime espionage thriller film The Man Who Never Was finds British intelligence officers planting phony papers about the Allied invasion of Europe on a drowned man they call Major Martin to […]

May, 25 · in Reviews

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By *** (1952, Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Marius Goring, Herbert Lom, Anouk Aimée, Ferdy Mayne, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3,772

The 1952 British suspense crime thriller film The Man Who Watched Trains Go By has four or five inestimable advantages. Notably, it is based on a Georges Simenon novel and stars Claude Rains. Writer-director Harold French’s […]

May, 25 · in Uncategorized

The Man Who Played God [The Silent Voice] *** (1932, George Arliss, Bette Davis, Louise Closser Hale, Violet Heming, Ivan F Simpson, Wade Boteler) – Classic Movie Review 3771

Director John G Adolfi’s mawkish, heart-tugging 1932 movie The Man Who Played God [The Silent Voice] stars George Arliss as Montgomery Royle, a concert pianist who goes deaf after an explosion, and is plunged into despair […]

May, 25

Love & Friendship ***½ (2016, Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Tom Bennett ) – Movie Review

Writer-director Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. It’s a minor work and it can’t help being a minor film. But Stillman tries all he can and knows to make a success of it, with good, highly civilised, polished results […]

May, 25

A Shot in the Dark **** (1964, Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Bert Kwouk, Graham Stark, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3770

Director Blake Edwards’s tasty 1964 comedy is the welcome first sequel to The Pink Panther (1963), which finds Peter Sellers on even better form as the bizarrely bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who absurdly believes that the housemaid Maria […]

May, 25

Pillow of Death ** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Brenda Joyce, J Edward Bromberg, George Cleveland, Clara Blandick) – Classic Movie Review 3762

Lon Chaney Jr again stars, this time as Wayne Fletcher, in Universal’s sixth and final Inner Sanctum series mystery as a dodgy-seeming attorney whom the police suspect when his wife is suffocated under a pillow. […]

May, 24

Strange Confession *** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Brenda Joyce, J Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Bridges, Mary Gordon, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 3768

Director John Hoffman’s chilling 1945 low-budget horror mystery is the fifth of Universal’s six Inner Sanctum series entries, and again stars Lon Chaney Jr, this time as chemist / scientist Jeff Carter, who is working on a cure […]

May, 24

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