Derek Winnert

The Odessa File *** (1974, Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell) – Classic Movie Review 9,146

A well-cast Jon Voight scored a big hit in the 1974 Frederick Forsyth thriller film The Odessa File about a German reporter on the trail of neo-Nazis. Director Ronald Neame’s 1974 The Odessa File stars […]

Dec, 11 · in Uncategorized

Operation Amsterdam ** (1959, Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 9145

Co-writer/ director Michael McCarthy’s 1958 Operation Amsterdam is a decent though low-tension real-life World War Two action drama about British-Netherlands trio Jan Smit (Peter Finch), Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox) and Major Dillon (Tony Britton) linking […]

Dec, 11 · in Reviews

The High Command *** (1937, Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, Steven Geray, James Mason) – Classic Movie Review 9144

Director Thorold Dickinson’s 1937 British drama The High Command stars Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, Steven Geray and the young James Mason, who catches the eye as Captain Heverell, a British officer involved in army intrigue, […]

Dec, 10

Odette **** (1950, Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 9143

Anna Neagle shines in her producer-director husband Herbert Wilcox’s 1950 British wartime drama Odette. Based on the book by Jerrard Tickell, there is a sterling tale of Resistance heroics in Nazi-occupied France in this stirring […]

Dec, 10

Love and Bullets ** (1979, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 9142

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1978 film Love and Bullets is a workmanlike Charles Bronson thriller in which Bronson’s character, the Phoenix, Arizona, cop Charlie Congers, is assigned to rescue Jackie Pruit (played as usual by Bronson’s […]

Dec, 09

The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] * (1977, Gene Hackman, Richard Widmark, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 9,141

Stanley Kramer’s 1977 neo-noir assassination thriller film The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen,  Mickey Rooney and Richard Widmark. Producer/ director Stanley Kramer’s 1977 neo-noir assassination thriller film The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars […]

Dec, 09

Listen to Britain **** (1942, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Myra Hess) – Classic Movie Review 9140

The 1942 essay film Listen to Britain is a rousing classic wartime documentary short from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings, embodying the recorded sounds of vignettes in the nation’s life, as civilians struggle with surviving […]

Dec, 09

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