Derek Winnert

Calling Bulldog Drummond *** (1951, Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, Peggy Evans) – Classic Movie Review 10,879

Ron Randell and Tom Conway tried the Bulldog Drummond character for two films each in 1947-48, followed by Walter Pidgeon in this one-off appearance in director Victor Saville’s 1951 mystery crime thriller Calling Bulldog Drummond, […]

Feb, 04 · in Reviews

Penny and the Pownall Case ** (1948, Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Diana Dors, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,878

Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]

Feb, 04 · in Reviews

Murder at 3am ** (1953, Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Rex Garner) – Classic Movie Review 10,877

The 1953 British crime thriller film Murder at 3am stars Dennis Price as Inspector Peter Lawton of Scotland Yard investigating a series of baffling late-night murders of young women.  ‘Kill-crazy prowler strikes again!’ Director Francis […]

Feb, 04

It’s Not Cricket *** (1949, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham, Alan Wheatley, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 10,876

The 1949 film It’s Not Cricket is an amusing and engaging minor British comedy starring Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as upper class twits who set up as bumbling private detectives and become mixed up […]

Feb, 03

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror ** (1938, George Curzon, Tod Slaughter, Greta Gynt) – Classic Movie Review 10,875

Director George King’s 1938 black and white British crime thriller Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror stars George Curzon as super-sleuth Sexton Blake who, along with Tony Sympson as Tinker, investigates a case of stolen […]

Feb, 03

It’s Never Too Late to Mend *** (1937, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,873

Director David MacDonald’s 1937 black and white Victorian melodramas It’s Never Too Late to Mend stars Tod Slaughter, who extravagantly holds the attention as Squire John Meadows, the wicked Victorian lord of the manor (and […]

Feb, 03

Greed in the Sun [Cent mille dollars au soleil] *** (1964, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Lino Ventura, Gert Fröbe, Bernard Blier, Reginald Kernan, Andréa Parisy) – Classic Movie Review 10,874

Director Henri Verneuil’s 1964 Greed in the Sun [Cent Mille Dollars au Soleil] is a fast-moving, proficient and enjoyable imported French road movie action thriller, involving a wild chase over the Saharan desert for a […]

Feb, 03

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