Derek Winnert

They Were So Young [Mannequins für Rio] ** (1954, Scott Brady, Raymond Burr, Johanna Matz) – Classic Movie Review 11,491

Director Kurt Neumann’s rare and unusual 1954 German-American black and white noir crime drama film They Were So Young [Mannequins für Rio] has a screenplay written by Felix Lützkendorf and Kurt Neumann, and the blacklisted […]

Aug, 18 · in Reviews

Unmasked *** (1950, Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 11,490

Republic Pictures’ lively 1950 black and white crime thriller film Unmasked stars Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr and Hillary Brooke. ‘Smeared by Scandal that led to MURDER! SHOCK STORY of a VICIOUS RACKET! SHAKEDOWN […]

Aug, 18 · in Reviews

Walk a Crooked Mile *** (1948, Dennis O’Keefe, Louis Hayward, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 11,489

FBI director J Edgar Hoover forced them to change the title from FBI vs Scotland Yard to Walk a Crooked Mile (1948). Director Gordon Douglas’s rousing little 1948 black and white film noir crime Cold War […]

Aug, 18

The Red Pony *** (1949, Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Peter Miles, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Margaret Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 11,488

Producer-director Lewis Milestone’s 1949 American rural drama children’s film The Red Pony is Republic Pictures’ version of John Steinbeck’s three stories (The Gift, Leader of the People, The Promise) about a boy called Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), […]

Aug, 17

The Night We Got the Bird * (1960, Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, Ronald Shiner, Leo Franklyn, Irene Handl, John Slater, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 11,487

Brian Rix returns for director Darcy Conyers’s 1960 British black and white sequel comedy film The Night We Got the Bird, the follow-up to their 1959 hit The Night We Dropped a Clanger. The Night […]

Aug, 17

The Night We Dropped a Clanger * (1959, Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Hattie Jacques, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn, John Welsh, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 11,486

The 1959 British film The Night We Dropped a Clanger [Make Mine a Double] is a forced and tedious farcical comedy. Brian Rix stars as an Armed Forces lavatory attendant who is mistaken for a […]

Aug, 16

Red Light ** (1949, George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart, Raymond Burr, Harry Morgan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 11,485

Producer-director Roy Del Ruth’s 1949 American film noir crime thriller Red Light stars George Raft as innocent Johnny Torno, who goes after the killers of his heroic Catholic chaplain brother Jess (Arthur Franz), when he is released from […]

Aug, 16

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