Derek Winnert

La Sfida [The Challenge] **** (1958, Rosanna Schiaffino, José Suárez, Nino Vingelli) – Classic Movie Review 11,075

World cinema director Francesco Rosi’s highly promising first feature is the realist 1958 Italian black and white crime film La Sfida [The Challenge], a real-life mobster story set in Naples. The realist 1958 Italian black and […]

Jun, 25 · in Uncategorized

No Resting Place *** (1951, Michael Gough, Noel Purcell, Jack MacGowran, Eithne Dunne, Brian O’Higgins, Diana Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 13,590

Michael Gough stars as an Irish Traveller relentlessly pursued by a policeman (Noel Purcell) after accidentally killing a gamekeeper, in the 1951 crime drama film No Resting Place. ‘NEVER out of sight…NEVER out of mind…NEVER free of […]

Jun, 25 · in Uncategorized

The Tattered Dress ** (1957, Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, Elaine Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 13,589

The 1957 black and white CinemaScope film noir thriller The Tattered Dress stars Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, and Elaine Stewart. Director Jack Arnold’s 1957 Universal-International Pictures black and white CinemaScope film […]

Jun, 24

Behind the Trees [A Floresta dos Sussurros] *** (2023, Léo Carius, Thiago Cazado) – Classic Movie Review 13,588

Thiago Cazado’s 2023 film Behind the Trees [A Floresta dos Sussurros] is an enticingly odd little Brazilian gay drama with an absurdist and provocative Almodovar spin. Behind the Trees [A Floresta dos Sussurros] is an […]

Jun, 24

The Gay Desperado **** (1936, Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, Nino Martini) – Classic Movie Review 13,587  

Rouben Mamoulian’s 1936 musical comedy gangster movie spoof film The Gay Desperado stars Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo and Metropolitan Opera tenor Nino Martini. Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1936 American musical comedy film The Gay Desperado spoofs Hollywood gangster movies, […]

Jun, 23

One Wild Oat *** (1951, Robertson Hare and Stanley Holloway, with June Sylvaine, Sam Costa, Andrew Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 13,586

The 1951 British comedy film One Wild Oat stars comic geniuses Robertson Hare and Stanley Holloway, along with June Sylvaine, Sam Costa and Andrew Crawford, plus pre-stardom Audrey Hepburn and Roger Moore. Director Charles Saunders’s 1951 British black and […]

Jun, 22

Playgirl ** (1954, Shelley Winters, Barry Sullivan, Colleen Miller, Gregg Palmer, Richard Long, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 13,585

The 1954 crime film Playgirl stars Shelley Winters, Barry Sullivan, and Colleen Miller as a young woman who comes to New York City to be a model and ends up involved in a shooting and a […]

Jun, 22

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