Derek Winnert

Deathtrap **** (1982, Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7811

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1982 hit Deathtrap is a hugely enjoyable film version of Ira Levin’s stage thriller, with Michael Caine as the has-been Broadway playwright Sidney Bruhl suffering from writer’s block who conceives one of his […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

Child’s Play * (1972, James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 7810

The 1972 drama Child’s Play is the film version of a Broadway play written by Robert Marasco about rivalry and violence in an exclusive Catholic boys’ school. It is a rare misfire from director Sidney […]

Nov, 19 · in Reviews

Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809

Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]

Nov, 19

City Streets **** (1931, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd, Wynne Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 7808

‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]

Nov, 19

Storm in a Teacup **** (1937, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7807

Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]

Nov, 19

Dark Journey **** (1937, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7806

Sparkling performances from the sleek and sexy team of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt light up producer-director Victor Saville’s 1937 thriller Dark Journey [The Anxious Years], an involvingly dark and complex British espionage movie set […]

Nov, 19

Above Suspicion *** (1943, Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 7805

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1943 jauntily escapist MGM wartime spy thriller Above Suspicion is taken from a Helen MacInnes bestselling novel and stars Fred MacMurray and Joan Crawford as Oxford professor Richard Myles and his new […]

Nov, 19

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