Derek Winnert

23 Paces to Baker Street *** (1956, Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3125

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 suspense thriller is slick and enjoyable if slightly over-extended feeling at 103 minutes. Nigel Balchin adapts the novel by author Philip MacDonald, writer of the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) and […]

Dec, 03 · in Reviews

The Return of Doctor X [The Return of Dr X] ** (1939, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3,124

‘HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD…TO HAUNT THE LIVING!!!’ The intriguing 1939 horror thriller film The Return of Doctor X stars a just pre-superstardom Humphrey Bogart as the murderous bogeyman Doctor X. Bogart called it a […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Doctor X [Dr X] **** (1932, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy) – Classic Movie Review 3,121

The wild and wonderful 1932 blood-curdling baroque horror film Doctor X [Dr X] stars Lionel Atwill as a mad scientist, Dr Jerry Xavier, the crazy full-moon serial strangler. ‘Out-Thrills Them All!’ Director Michael Curtiz’s wild […]

Dec, 02

Devil Girl from Mars *** (1954, Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri, Joseph Tomelty, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3,123

‘Invasion from Outer Space!… Sights too weird to imagine! Destruction too monstrous to escape!’ However, this is the exotic and amazing Patricia Laffan’s finest hour in the movies. ‘Invasion from Outer Space!… Sights too weird […]

Dec, 02

The Devil Is a Woman ***** (1935, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 3122

Director Josef von Sternberg’s exotically beautiful 1935 romantic drama stars Marlene Dietrich in her last movie partnership with her real-life Svengali-figure. It is based on Pierre Louys’s story of obsessive love, La Femme et Le […]

Dec, 02

Devil Doll *** (1964, Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Stepanek, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3,120

Co-producer/director Lindsay Shonteff’s low-budget gothic 1964 British horror movie Devil Doll stars Bryant Halliday as the evil hypnotist/ ventriloquist The Great Vorelli. Vorelli puts heiress Marianne Horn (Yvonne Romain), the girlfriend of an American reporter […]

Dec, 02

The Devil-Doll **** (1936, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O’Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Henry B Walthall, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 3119

Director Tod Browning’s vintage 1936 sci-fi horror classic stars Lionel Barrymore as Paul Lavond, a respected banker in Paris framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil’s Island. He finally escapes […]

Dec, 02

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