Derek Winnert

Street Smart *** (1987, Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Morgan Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 11,087

Christopher Reeve’s deal with Golan-Globus Productions for Superman IV included the chance to do director Jerry Schatzberg’s little-seen but watchable 1987 thriller Street Smart about a New York magazine reporter newsman called Jonathan Fisher who promises […]

Apr, 10 · in Reviews

Portrait from Life [The Girl in the Painting] *** (1949, Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 11,086

‘A psychological thriller, a captivating mystery, a tender love story – all brilliantly COMBINED INTO ONE EXCITING MOTION PICTURE’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1949 British black and white mystery romantic drama Portrait from Life [The Girl […]

Apr, 10 · in Reviews

The 50 films directed by Terence Fisher

  The underrated British film director Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) directed movies from 1948 to 1974, and was best known for his work for Hammer Films, directing 29 films for […]

Apr, 09

Street Corner *** (1953, Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan, Barbara Murray, Sarah Lawson, Ronald Howard, Eleanor Summerfield, Michael Medwin, Maurice Denham, Thora Hird, Dora Bryan, Joyce Carey) – Classic Movie Review 11,085

‘TORN from the records of women who fight crime!’ Director Muriel Box’s 1953 realist crime drama Street Corner [Both Sides of the Law] is an interesting women’s riposte to The Blue Lamp (1950) that spawned […]

Apr, 09

The Man on the Roof [Mannen på taket] *** (1976, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg) – Classic Movie Review 11,084

Director Bo Widerberg’s 1976 Swedish film The Man on the Roof [Mannen pò Taket] starts with the brutal killing of a police inspector in a hospital in Stockholm that initiates a manhunt led by detective […]

Apr, 09

Man on the Run ** (1949, Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 11,083

The 1949 black and white film noir Man on the Run is a humdrum British post-war thriller with a familiar plot, but it is given a little bit of a lift with decent acting and […]

Apr, 09

Murder by Proxy [Blackout] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies) – Classic Movie Review 11,082

‘EXPLODES… in a sinister network of evil!’ The 1954 British crime film noir Murder by Proxy [Blackout] stars Dane Clark as a down-and-out offered money to marry a beautiful young heiress (Belinda Lee).  ‘EXPLODES… in […]

Apr, 08

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