Derek Winnert

I Confess **** (1953, Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden) – Classic Film Review 447

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 film noir-style thriller film I Confess, set and filmed on location in moody Quebec City, is a worthy and watchable but glum experience. There is too much internal introspection for an exciting […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Foreign Correspondent ***** (1940, Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Albert Bassermann, George Sanders, Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Benchley, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck) – Classic Movie Review 446

Foreign Correspondent (1940) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest classic movies, yet it is not as well known as some of his other masterworks. The reason for that is almost certainly only that it doesn’t […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Equus ***** (1977, Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 445

In 1977, Peter Firth gets to record his 1973 London National Theatre Old Vic theatre role of a lifetime in this sensitive, beautiful Sidney Lumet-directed version of the highly emotional and deeply unsettling, but illuminating and uplifting […]

Nov, 24

Blackmail ***** (1929, John Longden, Anny Ondra, Cyril Ritchard) – Classic Movie Review 444

Alfred Hitchcock’s lively, imaginative 1929 pioneering thriller film Blackmail is remarkable as Britain’s first talking picture. It’s a treasured relic of a bygone era. A highly impressive piece of work considering its age and filming […]

Nov, 24

To Catch a Thief ***** (1954, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams) – Classic Movie Review 443

Alfred Hitchcock’s purringly smooth, thoroughly enjoyable 1954 escapist romantic comedy-mystery has the inestimable benefit of starring the director’s two favourites, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. As a thriller, it’s at the opposite end of the […]

Nov, 24

The Paradine Case **** (1947, Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Alida Valli, Louis Jourdan, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 442

Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Smythe Hichens, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1947 American film The Paradine Case is a twisty, talky and stagey but oddly compelling courtroom thriller, with an excellent cast of stars in […]

Nov, 23

Suspicion ***** (1941, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 441

Alfred Hitchcock’s richly enjoyable and likeable 1941 thriller Suspicion (1941) is a sweaty exercise in anxiety. Both stars Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine are at the peak of their career, powers and attraction. In the […]

Nov, 23

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