Derek Winnert

Lost Command *** (1966, Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon, George Segal, Michèle Morgan, Maurice Ronet, Claudia Cardinale, Grégoire Aslan, Jean Servais) – Classic Movie Review 8253

A fine international, though mostly French, cast all do their stirring stuff for the 1954 French-Algerian conflict in producer-director Mark Robson’s well-staged 1966 action-adventure film Lost Command, with a strong pro-peace message and dashes of romance. […]

Mar, 17 · in Reviews

Once a Thief *** (1965, Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 8,252

The hard-boiled 1965 black and white crime thriller Once a Thief stars Alain Delon as a San Francisco ex-thief who wants to go straight but is dragged back into crime by his brother Walter (Jack […]

Mar, 17 · in Reviews

Stranger on the Third Floor **** (1940, Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8251

The 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor is a classic film noir thriller where menace lurks in every shadow and stairway. Peter Lorre stars as the sinister Stranger, whom a reporter (John McGuire) suspects has […]

Mar, 17

Stranger Than Paradise *** (1984, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 8250

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 black and white road-movie comedy drama Stranger than Paradise is aimless yet charming. It turns a lazily hipster eye on two New York deadbeats Willie and Eddie (played by John Lurie […]

Mar, 17

The Aftermath ** (2019, Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, Fionn O’Shea, Kate Phillips, Martin Compston) – Movie Review

The Aftermath (2019) is slow, dull, yawn-inducing retro cinema, with a plodding, predictable story that has one or two good scenes but barely entertains at all. Where is its relevance? Where is its fascination and […]

Mar, 16

Red Heat *** (1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O’Ross, Larry Fishburne, Gina Gershon) – Classic Movie Review 8249

Director Walter Hill’s 1988 action thriller Red Heat stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Russian lawman Captain Ivan Danko of the Soviet State Police, who is sent to Chicago to pick up a drug dealer, dangerous Georgian […]

Mar, 15

Strange Interlude ** (1932, Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, May Robson, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry B Walthall) – Classic Movie Review 8,248

MGM’s curious 1932 drama Strange Interlude stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on a play by Eugene O’Neill, who called it ‘a dreadful hash of attempted condensation and idiotic censorship.’ Director Robert […]

Mar, 15

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