Derek Winnert

The Man Who Died Twice *** (1958, Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Mike Mazurki) – Classic Movie Review 7613

Director Joseph [Joe] Kane’s 1958 film noir crime drama The Man Who Died Twice stars Vera Ralston, who ended her career, aged 37, with this typically routine but brisk and complex black and white thriller […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

Pushover **** (1954, Fred MacMurray, Kim Novak, Philip Carey, Dorothy Malone, E G Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 7,614

Richard Quine’s enjoyable 1954 film noir suspense thriller Pushover stars Fred MacMurray, but is perhaps most notable as a springboard to stardom for 20-year-old Kim Novak, in her first credited film. Director Richard Quine’s 1954 film […]

Sep, 21 · in Reviews

5 Against the House **** (1955, Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 7612

Director Phil Karlson’s commendable 1955 black and white film noir crime thriller 5 Against the House is especially suspenseful and inventively written. It is notable as an early example of a filmed heist and depiction […]

Sep, 21

The Lineup **** (1958, Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson, Richard Jaeckel, Emile Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 7611

Director Don Siegel’s taut, tough-toned and witty 1958 B-movie film noir police procedural crime thriller The Lineup, a big-screen version of the hit 1954-60 TV series The Lineup aka San Francisco Beat, is a credit […]

Sep, 21

Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]

Sep, 21

No Man’s Woman *** (1955, Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates, Jil Jarmyn, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 7609

Republic Pictures’ thoroughly enjoyable 1955 film noir No Man’s Woman gives Marie Windsor a rare, much deserved star role as a scheming femme fatale who double-crosses five people but ends up dead. ‘RUTHLESS, SHAMELESS! – There Was Only One […]

Sep, 21

The Sniper **** (1952, Arthur Franz, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, Richard Kiley, Frank Faylen) – Classic Movie Review 7608

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1952 thriller The Sniper is an excellent Fifties film noir-style crime drama that is made all the more powerful for being shot in a groundbreaking semi-naturalistic fashion. In the story by Edward […]

Sep, 21

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