Derek Winnert

The Big Combo **** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 2,569

Joseph H Lewis’s classic 1955 B-movie film noir thriller The Big Combo is ultra-tough for its day. It pushed a few boundaries and got into censorship problems with its slant on a regulation tale about […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

D.O.A. **** (1950, Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 2565

Director Rudolph Maté’s invigorating 1950 film noir crime thriller is a well-deserved long-term cult classic, and was remade in 1988 starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan as D.O.A. It starts off with dead on arrival […]

Jun, 07 · in Reviews

Madigan **** (1968, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore, Susan Clark, Steve Ihnat, Don Stroud, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 2564

Director Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 police thriller Madigan stars the 57-year-old Richard Widmark, who gives a most compelling star turn as the tough New York City detective of the title, who sets out with his […]

Jun, 07

Guncrazy *** (1992, Drew Barrymore, James Le Gros, Joe Dallesandro, Michael Ironside, Ione Skye, Jeremy Davies, Billy Drago, Robert Greenberg) – Classic Movie Review 2568

Director Tamra Davis’s propulsive and dangerous 1992 loose remake of Joseph H Lewis’s 1949 film noir favourite stars Drew Barrymore as Anita Minteer, a sexy but disturbed high-school girl who is sick and tired of her life […]

Jun, 07

Gun Crazy ***** (1949, John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 2566

‘We go together, Laurie. I don’t know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1949 film noir favourite stars John Dall as gun-loving Barton ‘Bart’ Tare, a World War Two […]

Jun, 07

Species II ** (1998, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, James Cromwell, Justin Lazard, George Dzundza) – Classic Movie Review 2567

The 1998 sci-fi horror film Species II brings back Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger, and Natasha Henstridge returns as a new character. It is misjudged and wastes an OK premise, but has plus points in […]

Jun, 07

The Hitch-Hiker **** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2563

Director Ida Lupino’s tense and compelling 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker has two fishing-trip travellers Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) leaving their wives and picking up the sinister hitch-hiker Emmett Myers (William Talman), a […]

Jun, 06

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