Derek Winnert

Rome, Open City [Roma Città Aperta] ***** (1945, Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero) – Classic Movie Review 869

Director Roberto Rossellini’s famous, great 1945 neo-realist classic Rome, Open City [Roma Città Aperta] focuses on a group of foolishly brave Italian resistance members, who try to oppose the sadistically evil occupying Nazi forces with […]

Mar, 05 · in Uncategorized

Wake in Fright **** (1970, Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 868

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1970 Aussie movie is an extremely atmospheric, brutal-toned, imaginatively made and gripping psychological chiller. Gary Bond stars as a shy, educated English teacher John Grant, who soon finds himself in a whole lot […]

Mar, 05 · in Uncategorized

Murder, She Said **** (1961, Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Tingwell, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 867

Director George Pollock’s 1961 comedy murder mystery thriller Murder, She Said is the first and best of Margaret Rutherford’s four star movie appearances as Agatha Christie’s spinster sleuth. Freely based on Christie’s famous 1957 novel 4.50 […]

Mar, 05

Murder Ahoy *** (1964, Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Stringer Davis, Nicholas Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 864

Margaret Rutherford’s fourth and final outing as Agatha Christie’s spinster detective Miss Jane Marple, the 1964 comedy thriller Murder Ahoy, has a breezy nautical flavour, as she investigates the murder of one of her fellow […]

Mar, 04

A Beautiful Mind **** (2001, Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 863

In director Ron Howard’s moving and distinguished 2001 film, Oscar-nominated Russell Crowe gives a performance to crow about as real-life maths genius John Nash, afflicted with the terrible curse of paranoid delusions and schizophrenia. After […]

Mar, 04

Cool Hand Luke ***** (1967, Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, J D Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Clifton James, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Anthony Zerbe, Ralph Waite) – Classic Movie Review 862

Paul Newman enjoys one of his most memorable and iconic cool roles in tough, haunting 1967 prison movie classic Cool Hand Luke. George Kennedy won an Oscar. Newman, the screenplay and Lalo Schifrin’s distinguished score […]

Mar, 02

Murder! **** (1930, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Donald Calthrop, Marie Wright, Esmé Percy) – Classic Movie Review 861

The 1930 British thriller film Murder! is a rare whodunit from Alfred Hitchcock, who experiments with a daring psycho-sexual theme and improvised dialogue, with actors talking while a 30-piece orchestra played live on the set. […]

Mar, 02

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