Derek Winnert

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie ***** (1988, director Marcel Ophuls) – Classic Movie Review 13,538

Marcel Ophuls’s searing 1988 documentary film Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie explores the life of the Nazi war criminal who worked in Vichy France during World War Two. It won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Hotel Terminus […]

May, 26 · in Uncategorized

The Hour before the Dawn * (1944, Franchot Tone, Veronica Lake, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 13,537

The 1944 war drama film The Hour before the Dawn stars Franchot Tone as a British conscientious objector and Veronica Lake as young Austrian woman he marries, who turns out to be a German agent. Director […]

May, 26 · in Uncategorized

Memories of a Teenager [Yo, adolescente] (2019, Renato Quattordio, Thomas Lepera, Malena Narvay) – Classic Movie Review 13,536

Renato Quattordio stars as a teenage boy who begins writing a blog about his daily life after the after the suicide of a close friend and a fatal fire at a nearby concert, in the […]

May, 25

The Magnificent Fraud * (1939, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland, Patricia Morison, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 13,535

The 1939 film The Magnificent Fraud stars Akim Tamiroff as an actor hired by a con man (Lloyd Nolan) to impersonate the assassinated president of a Latin American country. Director Robert Florey’s 1939 Paramount Pictures […]

May, 25

Those People Next Door ** (1953, Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson, Garry Marsh, Jimmy James, Anthony Newley) – Classic Movie Review 13,534

The class-conscious 1953 film Those People Next Door is a story of Brits raising their family in the shadow of the Blitz, and stars Jack Warner, Charles Victor and Marjorie Rhodes Director John Harlow’s 1953 class-conscious British black […]

May, 25

The Great Profile *** (1940, John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Lionel Atwill, Edward Brophy) – Classic Movie Review 13,533

The 1940 comedy film The Great Profile stars hard-drinking John Barrymore, who gamely sends himself up as a drunken actor whose follies endanger the show he is in. Director Walter Lang’s 1940 American black and white […]

May, 25

My Best Friend [Mi mejor amigo] *** (2018, Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Lautaro Rodríguez, Guillermo Pfening) – Classic Movie Review 13,532

Angelo Mutti Spinetta stars as Patagonia teenager Lorenzo, whose family take in the son of a good friend of the family killed in an accident, in the 2018 Argentine heartwarmer My Best Friend [Mi mejor […]

May, 24

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