Derek Winnert

City Across the River *** (1949, Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten) – Classic Movie Review 10,589

Director Maxwell Shane’s 1949 black and white film noir thriller City Across the River tells of postwar life in the slums of Brooklyn, where the young hoodlums of a local gang called The Amboy Dukes […]

Nov, 27 · in Reviews

Cry Tough ** (1959, John Saxon, Linda Cristal, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 10,588

‘Battle Cry of New York’s West Side Jungle!’ The 22-year-old John Saxon has the striking main role as Miguel Estrada, a Puerto Rican former convict tempted back to a life of crime, in debut director […]

Nov, 27 · in Reviews

Hard to Kill * (1990, Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler) – Classic Movie Review 10,587

Director Bruce Malmuth’s 1990 action crime thriller Hard to Kill stars Steven Seagal (from Above the Law [Nico]) and his iconic ponytail as LA Detective Mason Storm, who proves impossible to kill as he relentlessly pursues […]

Nov, 26

Too Young to Love *** (1960, Thomas Mitchell, Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 10,586

‘If this happened to your daughter… would you be to blame?’ Director Muriel Box’s provocative and controversial 1960 British drama Too Young To Love is an intriguing dramatised account of the sad life of a […]

Nov, 26

Bullshot * (1983, Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E House) – Classic Movie Review 10,585

Bullshot: ‘Is this seemly, Mrs Platt-Higgins, playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?’ Director Dick Clement’s silly 1983 British comedy Bullshot is a strained slapstick spoof of Bulldog Drummond, based on a play […]

Nov, 26

Les Soeurs Brontë [The Brontë Sisters] ** (1979, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 10,584

Emily Brontë: ‘I spit on love and all its vanity’. Director André Techiné’s 1979 biographical costume drama Les Soeurs Brontë [The Brontë Sisters] stars a most formidable French acting talent line-up in Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle […]

Nov, 26

Moonlight Sonata ** (1937, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Charles Farrell, Marie Tempest, Barbara Greene, Eric Portman) – Classic Movie Review 10,583

‘PADEREWSKI in his only screen appearance’ When plane-crash survivors gather together in the home of a Swedish noblewoman, the Baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest), they are serenaded by famous classical pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (as himself), whose […]

Nov, 26

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