Derek Winnert

Pulp **** (1972, Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lizabeth Scott, Lionel Stander, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 2164

Writer-director Mike Hodges’s acclaimed 1972 cult movie is a jokey homage to or send-up of the film noir genre. It stars Michael Caine as a seedy writer of sleazy pulp fiction novels called Mickey King, who […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

Dead Ringer **** (1964, Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 2163

Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]

Feb, 10 · in Reviews

Cry of the City **** (1948, Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Shelley Winters, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 2162

Director Robert Siodmak’s notable 1948 thriller stars Victor Mature as a cop, Police Lieutenant Candella, who sets out to hunt down his old school buddy, petty crook Martin Rome (Richard Conte), who has shot a […]

Feb, 09

Loving You *** (1957, Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart) – Classic Movie Review 2161

Co-writer/director Hal Kanter’s 1957 vehicle for Elvis Presley finds him starring as young hillbilly singer Deke Rivers, who’s changed his name from Jimmy Tompkins. He becomes a teenage sensation after he is hired to boost […]

Feb, 09

Dead Reckoning **** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky) – Classic Movie Review 2160

Director John Cromwell’s distinguished 1947 thriller Dead Reckoning takes a lot of familiar film noir elements and stirs the pot to boiling point, cooking up an extremely tasty, fresh-seeming stew. It starts with a strong […]

Feb, 08

I Walk Alone **** (1948, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2,158

‘Once I trusted a dame… now I Walk Alone!’ Burt  Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott star with Wendell Corey and Kirk Douglas in director Byron Haskin’s authentic 1947 film noir I Walk Alone. ‘Once I trusted a […]

Feb, 07

Too Late for Tears **** (1949, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2159

‘She Got What She Wanted… With Lies… With Kisses… With Murder!’ Lizabeth Scott triumphs in her best movie role as Jane Palmer, a ruthless femme fatale who stumbles across a case filled with $60,000 worth […]

Feb, 07

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