Derek Winnert

It Chapter Two ** (2019, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Bill Skarsgård) – Movie Review

Director Andy Muschietti’s It (2017) sequel It Chapter Two (2019) is a bit of a disappointment, with dull adults wandering forlornly around their old home town of Derry, Maine, once again 27 years after their […]

Sep, 18 · in Reviews

Cry Wolf *** (1947, Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 8916

Warner Bros’ engrossing 1947 nothing-is-at-it-seems crime thriller Cry Wolf stars Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn, who prove a good team.  ‘Next time you hear some odd noise in the night, just follow the memorable custom […]

Sep, 18 · in Reviews

Cry Vengeance ** (1954, Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs, Douglas Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 8915

Director Mark Stevens’s routine, semi-tough 1954 film noir thriller Cry Vengeance also stars Stevens as violent ex-cop Vic Barron, who hunts the villain, apparently Tino Morelli (Douglas Kennedy), who framed him and put him in […]

Sep, 18

Drive a Crooked Road *** (1954, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8914

Director Richard Quine’s gritty 1954 black and white film noir crime drama thriller Drive a Crooked Road offers the 33-year-old Mickey Rooney a useful star role and he grabs it to give a fine performance […]

Sep, 18

Indianapolis Speedway *** (1939, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, John Payne) – Classic Movie Review 8913

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Warner Bros drama Indianapolis Speedway [Devil on Wheels] stars Pat O’Brien as Joe Greer, who wants his young brother Eddie (John Payne) to get on with his studies at college. Lee […]

Sep, 17

Scene of the Crime *** (1949, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, John McIntyre, Donald Woods, Norman Lloyd, Jerome Cowan, Tom Powers) – Classic Movie Review 8,912

The fast and efficient 1949 film noir crime thriller Scene of the Crime stars Van Johnson as a Los Angeles homicide cop handcuffed to a corpse while tracking the killer of an ex-partner. Director Roy […]

Sep, 17

The Midnight Story (1957, Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 8911

Director Joseph Pevney’s unfairly completely forgotten 1957 Universal International Pictures Pictures CinemaScope black and white film noir crime thriller film The Midnight Story is one of Tony Curtis’s most obscure movies. In an unusual project […]

Sep, 17

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