Derek Winnert

The River **** (1951, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Adrienne Corri, Patricia Walters, Thomas E Breen) – Classic Movie Review 3245

French master director Jean Renoir turns Rumer Godden’s romantic auto-biographical novel about an English family on the banks of the Ganges into this beautifully filmed (on location in Bengal in India), rich and compelling 1951 drama. The […]

Jan, 06 · in Reviews

The River **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 3242

Director Mark Rydell’s affecting 1984 drama is a classy movie, not least for the superb cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond and music of John Williams, but also for the marvellous, moving star performances of Mel Gibson […]

Jan, 06 · in Reviews

Dark Waters *** (1944, Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, John Qualen, Elisha Cook Jr, Rex Ingram) – Classic Movie Review 3235

Director André de Toth’s atmospheric and engrossing 1944 Gothic film noir thriller stars Merle Oberon as troubled orphan Leslie Calvin, who visits her strange Louisiana relatives after she survives a traumatic World War Two ship […]

Jan, 05

Dillinger **** (1973, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, John P Ryan, John Martino, Roy Jenson) – Classic Movie Review 3241

Writer-director John Milius’s 1973 thriller for American International Pictures casts Warren Oates in his first starring role as America’s public enemy number one John Dillinger. Début director Milius’s gangster movie is tough, pulsating and uncompromising […]

Jan, 05

Dillinger **** (1945, Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr, Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 3234

Director Max Nosseck’s 1945 thriller is an excellent B-movie gangster film Dillinger, which uses imagination and skill to triumph over its low-budget cheapness and enjoys a claim to being humble poverty row Monogram Pictures’ best […]

Jan, 05

Electra Glide in Blue **** (1973, Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley, Elisha Cook Jnr, Royal Dano) – Classic Movie Review 3233

The 1973 cult movie Electra Glide in Blue stars Robert Blake as the Arizona motorbike patrol cop John Wintergreen, who can outsmart all the bad guys he meets on the highway. First-time director James William […]

Jan, 05

Salem’s Lot **** (1979, David Soul, James Mason, Reggie Nalder, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Julie Cobb, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3,232

Tobe Hooper turns Stephen King’s famed 1975 horror novel into the splendidly scary and hugely entertaining 1979 movie Salem’s Lot starring David Soul as writer Ben Mears and James Mason as spooky antique dealer Mr […]

Jan, 05

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