Derek Winnert

Shakedown **** (1950, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9479

Director Joseph [Joe] Pevney’s 1950 Universal International Pictures black and white B-movie crime thriller Shakedown is a little gem of a movie in the best film noir crime drama tradition. Howard Duff plays unscrupulous Jack […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

Runaway Daughters ** (1956, Marla English, Gloria Castillo, Mary Ellen Kay, Anna Sten, John Litel, Lance Fuller, Adele Jurgens) – Classic Movie Review 9478

Director Edward L Cahn’s melodramatic and unconvincing 1956 black and white crime drama Runaway Daughters stars Marla English, Gloria Castillo and Mary Ellen Kay as three teenage girls who go to Hollywood and get into […]

Mar, 08 · in Reviews

The Runaway Bus *** (1954, Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 9,477

‘All Aboard for a Non-Stop Ride of Fun!’ Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1954 British black and white crime comedy film The Runaway Bus stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark and George Coulouris. London’s Heathrow Airport […]

Mar, 08

Four Brothers ** (2005, Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund) – Classic Movie Review 9476

Detroit really looks a no-go area in John Singleton’s exciting, violent 2005 B-movie thriller Four Brothers, with the actors fighting valiantly against their cypher roles and a script that forces them to act incredibly and […]

Mar, 08

Little Joe **** (2019, Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Lindsay Duncan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Jessica Hausner’s engrossing, unsettling and oddly disturbing posh horror fantasy mystery Little Joe (2019) is extremely smart and clever. It looks smart and its script is clever. The acting direction and production are […]

Mar, 07

Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] ** (1971, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin) – Classic Movie Review 9475

Director Abraham Polonsky’s 1971 adventure Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] [Le Roman d’un Voleur de Chevaux] is a little-seen, virtually ignored box-office flop. Based on a story by Joseph Opatoshu, it is a Jewish […]

Mar, 07

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here **** (1969, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark) – Classic Movie Review 9,474

The undervalued 1969 anti-Western film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here stars Robert Redford and tells the real-life tale of a Western manhunt in 1909. As director or screenwriter, witch-hunt victim Abraham Polonsky was the […]

Mar, 07

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