Derek Winnert

Sudden Impact ** (1983, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 3812

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s suddenly much lower-impact 1983 action thriller is the fourth Dirty Harry film in a steadily declining series, following Dirty Harry (1971), Magnum Force (1973) and The Enforcer  (1976). After a lengthy gap, Eastwood returns to […]

Jun, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Enforcer ** (1976, Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 3810

Director James Fargo’s mechanical, violent, drearily plotted and slackly handled 1976 police thriller is not much above routine, though the admirable star team of Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly, with their amusing rapport and repartee, manage to […]

Jun, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Enforcer [Murder, Inc] **** (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Everett Sloane, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 3,809

The first-rate 1951 film noir thriller The Enforcer [Murder, Inc] finds Humphrey Bogart on top form as crusading district attorney Martin Ferguson doggedly on the trail of crime boss Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane) and his […]

Jun, 06

Les Enfants du Paradis [Children of Paradise] ***** (1945, Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur) – Classic Movie Review 3811

Director Marcel Carné’s glorious French 1945 epic romantic movie re-creates 1830s and 1840s Paris in an astounding studio production somehow conjured up during the wartime Occupation austerity of World War Two. This meant building what was then […]

Jun, 05

Le Doulos ***** (1962, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 3802

Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s shadowy, twisting and disturbing 1962 French neo noir gangster thriller Le Doulos is adapted from the novel by Pierre Lesou. It takes its power and modernity from being a profoundly cynical and […]

Jun, 05

Le Deuxième Souffle [Second Breath] ***** (1966, Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3,800

Jean-Pierre Melville’s exhilarating 1966 heist gangster thriller Le Deuxième Souffle [Second Breath] is another of his hugely impressive films about the treacherous camaraderie of the criminal underworld. French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s exhilarating 1966 heist gangster thriller Le […]

Jun, 05

Les Enfants Terribles **** (1950, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima) – Classic Movie Review 3801

French film noir movie-maker Jean-Pierre Melville is an unexpected choice as writer-director for this surrealist and poetic 1950 film version of Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel about the extremely odd relationship of a teenage brother and […]

Jun, 05

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