Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Roadblock **** (1951, Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 9756

Little-known director Harold Daniels’s 1951 thriller Roadblock is a punchy Fifties B-movie crime drama re-heating the old film noir plot about an essentially good guy (Charles McGraw) tempted into crime by a greedy femme fatale […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

The Road to Glory **** (1936, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9755

Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer ** (1970, Peter Cook, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Ronnie Corbett, Arthur Lowe, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Vanessa Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9754

Director Kevin Billington’s 1970 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer stars Peter Cook, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Ronnie Corbett, Arthur Lowe, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser and Vanessa Howard. A galaxy of funny British comedians […]

May, 12

The Very Edge ** (1963, Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Jeremy Brett, Nicole Maurey, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 9753

Despite the good cast, a useful premise and a bright screenplay by Elizabeth Jane Howard, director Cyril Frankel’s 1963 psychological thriller The Very Edge ends up as a mere borderline timepasser but still in the interesting […]

May, 12

Miami Blues **** (1990, Fred Ward, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 9752

Writer-director George Armitage’s 1990 neo noir thriller Miami Blues stars Fred Ward as jaded Miami cop Sgt. Hoke Moseley, who is on the trail of extremely nasty ex-con Frederick J ‘Fred’ Frenger Jr (Alec Baldwin), […]

May, 11

Find the Lady * (1956, Donald Houston, Beverley Brooks, Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, Edwin Richfield) – Classic Movie Review 9751

Director Charles Saunders’s 1956 tepid, short British B-movie comedy thriller Find the Lady is based on the story by Paul Erickson and Dermot Palmer about a gang of bank robbers (Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, and […]

May, 11

Meteor ** (1979, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 9750

Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]

May, 11

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