Derek Winnert

Kansas City Confidential **** (1952, John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7556

Director Phil Karlson’s taut, tense, crisp, and expertly made little 1952 black and white film noir thriller Kansas City Confidential [The Secret Four] stars John Payne, Coleen Gray and Preston Foster, and is based on […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

99 River Street **** (1953, John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 7555

Cult director Phil Karlson’s excellent little-known 1953 film noir crime melodrama 99 River Street is a satisfying walk on the wild side that keeps up a cracking pace from start to finish, with Franz Planer’s […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

Backfire *** (1950, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Ed Begley) – Classic Movie Review 7554

The 1950 film noir crime thriller Backfire is a satisfyingly complicated and labyrinthine murder mystery. Gordon MacRae stars as war vet searching for his framed murder-suspect buddy (Edmond O’Brien) and tangling with a femme fatale […]

Sep, 09

They Won’t Believe Me **** (1947, Robert Young, Susan Hayward, Jane Greer) – Classic Movie Review 7553

Director Irving Pichel’s excellent 1947 film noir thriller They Won’t Believe Me stars Robert Young, who is well cast way outside his usual friendly, sympathetic mould in a chilling role as Larry Ballentine, a spineless […]

Sep, 09

Diamond City * (1949, David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Niall MacGinnis, Andrew Crawford, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 7552

Director David MacDonald’s 1949 adventure film Diamond City is a dull and predictable tale of the good guys versus the bad guys in a South African diamond mine. Diamond City gives the British an interesting […]

Sep, 09

Flaxy Martin *** (1949, Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 7,551

The solid 1948 Warner Bros film noir gangster movie Flaxy Martin stars Virginia Mayo as the gold-digging showgirl Flaxy Martin, and Zachary Scott as the honest young lawyer who falls for and protects her.  Director […]

Sep, 08

The Nun *** (2018, Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet) – Movie Review

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night in the convent with that pesky Nun, in this spin off from the Conjuring universe. Corin Hardy ‘s The Nun (2018) is a silly but […]

Sep, 07

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