Derek Winnert

Pink String and Sealing Wax **** (1945, Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Garry Marsh, John Carol) – Classic Movie Review 2824

Ealing Studios’ 1945 British thriller film Pink String and Sealing Wax, set in 1880s Victorian Brighton, is most atmospheric and entertaining. Googie Withers stars as Pearl Bond, the scheming, adulterous wife of a pub owner […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] **** (1969, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick) – Classic Movie Review 2823

Co-writer/ director Henri Verneuil’s very satisfactory and entertaining plot-driven 1969 gangster action thriller The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] is given a classy lift by a top-drawer French and Italian cast. The film is […]

Aug, 17 · in Reviews

Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle] ***** (1970, Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè, Bourvil) – Movie Review 2,822

Alain Delon stars a tough, cynical ex-con master crook in the 1970 Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle], his second of three thrilling films with Jean-Pierre Melville and fourth gangster movie. Alain Delon stars in […]

Aug, 17

Un Flic [Dirty Money] **** (1972, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2,821

Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]

Aug, 16

Mandy [Crash of Silence] ***** (1952, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Phyllis Calvert, Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 2820

Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]

Aug, 16

The Man in the White Suit ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 2819

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]

Aug, 16

Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818

Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]

Aug, 16

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