Derek Winnert

Hoodlum Empire *** (1952, Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Claire Trevor, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler, John Russell, Gene Lockhart, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 8954

Producer-director Joseph Kane’s 1952 black and white film noir crime thriller Hoodlum Empire stars Brian Donlevy as upright, feisty Senator Bill Stephens, who battles nasty crime lord Nick Mansani (Luther Adler). John Russell plays Joe […]

Sep, 30 · in Reviews

The Hoodlum Priest *** (1961, Don Murray, Keir Dullea, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Logan Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 8953

Director Irvin Kershner’s 1961 black and white drama The Hoodlum Priest stars Don Murray as St Louis Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, who tries to keep hoodlum Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea) on the […]

Sep, 30 · in Uncategorized

The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] **** (1983, Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8952

Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]

Sep, 30

The Hoodlum *** (1951 Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan) – Classic Movie Review 8,951

The 1951 film noir crime drama The Hoodlum stars Lawrence Tierney as a vicious jail parolee who pursues his life of crime again. Tierney’s real-life brother Edward plays the ex-con’s brother, who must do something. […]

Sep, 29

Canadian Pacific ** (1949, Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson, J Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 8,950

The solid, busy 1949 Western movie Canadian Pacific stars an ideal Randolph Scott as a railroad surveyor who discovers the pass through the Rockies, fights Indians and battles a trapper-boss (Victor Jory). Director Edwin L […]

Sep, 29

Canadian Bacon ** (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 8949

The good cast is mostly wasted in writer-director Michael Moore’s largely misfiring 1995 satire Canadian Bacon – but then it would have been much, much worse without them. Alan Alda is quite funny as the […]

Sep, 29

City of Hope **** (1991, Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Stephen Mendillo, Joe Morton, Barbara Williams, Chris Cooper, Kevin Tighe, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 8948

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1991 movie City of Hope is a splendidly confident dissection of a city’s despair over its race clashes, its poor, its past and its future. Vincent Spano heads a large ensemble cast […]

Sep, 29

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