Derek Winnert

The Male Animal **** (1942, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 10,228

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1942 Warner Bros black and white screwball comedy The Male Animal delightfully pairs Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland, actors usually more at home in serious dramas. Fonda stars as Tommy Turner, a […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

Malpertuis [The Legend of Doom House] **** (1971, Orson Welles, Susan Hampshire, Michel Bouquet, Mathieu Carrière, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Daniel Pilon, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 10,227

Director Harry Kümel’s 1971 film Malpertuis [The Legend of Doom House] stars the great Orson Welles as occultist Cassavius, who keeps characters from Greek mythology prisoner in his labyrinthine mansion called Malpertuis, in this weird […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

The Malpas Mystery ** (1960, Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Keen, Ronald Howard, Sandra Dorne, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 10,226

Maureen Swanson stars in the 1960 crime film The Malpas Mystery, a lively and involving, if fairly routine, British B-movie Edgar Wallace thriller adaptation. Director Sidney Hayers’s 1960 second feature crime film The Malpas Mystery […]

Aug, 26

Malone *** (1987, Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Lauren Hutton, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,225

Director Harley Cokeliss’s 1987 action thriller Malone stars Burt Reynolds in this modern-day Western as Malone, an ex-CIA hitman who uncovers a right-wing plot to seize control of the US government after his breaks down […]

Aug, 25

Heat *** (1986, Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 10,224

Directors Dick Richards and (uncredited) Jerry Jameson’s 1986 neo-noir action crime thriller Heat stars Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman and Diana Scarwid. William Goldman scripts Heat from his own 1985 novel, a […]

Aug, 25

A Hatful of Rain *** (1957, Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 10,223

Hollywood takes a deep breath and tackles the drug-addiction problem in director Fred Zinnemann’s affecting, intelligent 1957 film A Hatful of Rain, with Don Murray expertly tugging at the emotions as Johnny Pope, a young […]

Aug, 25

Crime and Punishment *** (1935, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray) – Classic Movie Review 10,222

Director Pierre Chenal’s 1935 black and white crime drama Crime and Punishment [Crime et Châtiment] is the simultaneously filmed French version of the Fyodor Dostoevsky classic novel, while Josef Von Sternberg was making his Hollywood […]

Aug, 25

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