Derek Winnert

The Hunted ***½ (1948, Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 3674

Director Jack Bernhard’s 1948 thriller is an expert, tense and moody film noir, in which Preston Foster stars as a cop probing a gem theft who finds his main squeeze (Belita) may be the criminal […]

May, 08 · in Uncategorized

The Hunted ** (2003, Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 3673

Tommy Lee Jones enjoys another one of his popular Fugitive-style dogged tracker roles as L.T. Bonham, the military hero who first trained a mad, bad and dangerous AWOL soldier Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro) to be a […]

May, 08 · in Uncategorized

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars **** (1973, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder) – Classic Movie Review 3672

Director D A Pennebaker’s indispensable 1973 British music documentary is a hunky-dory cinema verité film of David Bowie’s farewell performances as the androgynous Ziggy Stardust. The film takes all those who want to relive the […]

May, 07

Topper ***** (1937, Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 3671

Norman Z McLeod directs the sparkling 1937 vintage supernatural fantasy comedy classic Topper brightly, expertly and quite delicately and delightfully, with the help of a delicious screenplay by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch and Eddie Moran, […]

May, 07

Topkapi ***** (1964, Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 3,670

Jules Dassin’s splendidly entertaining 1964 heist caper movie Topkapi is based on Eric Ambler’s novel The Light of the Day. It features a lovely cast of Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Akim Tamiroff and […]

May, 07

Tiger Bay **** (1959, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3,669

Director J Lee Thompson’s taut, carefully scripted, well-acted 1959 thriller Tiger Bay stars 12-year-old Hayley Mills, who is superb in her film début as Gillie, a Cardiff dockland tomboy waif who observes Polish merchant marine Korchinsky […]

May, 07

Avanti! ***** (1972, Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 3,668

Jack Lemmon won a Golden Globe award and Juliet Mills and Clive Reville were nominated for Billy Wilder’s witty 1972 comedy film Avanti!  The neglected and underrated 1972 comedy film Avanti! is one of the […]

May, 07

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