Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "british noir"

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The Good Die Young *** (1954, Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, John Ireland, Margaret Leighton, Joan Collins, Stanley Baker, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9741

A particularly strong cast with eight unusual stars contributes to director Lewis Gilbert’s entertaining noir-style 1954 British crime thriller The Good Die Young about a gang who plan a heist on the Royal Mail postal […]

May, 10

Desperate Moment ** (1953, Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 9511

Director Compton Bennett’s mostly creaky and feeble 1953 British black and white crime melodrama Desperate Moment largely wastes the bright talents of the young and beautiful Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde. In Berlin after World […]

Mar, 15

Footsteps in the Fog *** (1955, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 British noir Footsteps in the Fog is a solid Fifties British-made, Hitchcockian Suspicion-style thriller, with stylish acting from the then real-life husband-and-wife team Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons as the wife […]

Feb, 13

Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] *** (1963, Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Jeremy Brett, Jane Asher) – Classic Movie Review 9334

Who killed Ursula Gray? Director Michael Truman’s 1963 British noir mystery thriller Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] stars Ian Hendry and Ronald Fraser, who make an appealing pair of investigators as Inspector […]

Feb, 02

The October Man *** (1947, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9,147

John Mills stars as a brain-damaged amnesiac, who becomes the chief murder suspect, in the 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man. Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man […]

Dec, 11

Tiger in the Smoke **** (1956, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles, Alec Clunes, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 9024

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1956 British black and white noir crime thriller Tiger in the Smoke is based on Margery Allingham’s 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke, and stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, […]

Oct, 28

The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461

When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]

May, 12

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