Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "british noir"

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Bedelia *** (1946, Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K Barnes, Anne Crawford, Jill Esmond) – Classic Movie Review 7077

Director Lance Comfort’s 1946 British thriller Bedelia stars Margaret Lockwood, who leads a novelettish, splendidly trashy murder mystery that was a big success of the day, perhaps surprising so given its lack of real quality. […]

May, 21

The Intimate Stranger [Finger of Guilt] *** (1956, Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Mervyn Johns, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey, Faith Brook) – Classic Movie Review 7066

Director Joseph Losey’s steadfast 1956 British noir thriller The Intimate Stranger is based on the novel Pay the Piper by Peter Howard [Howard Koch] and stars Richard Basehart as Reggie Wilson, a US film director […]

May, 18

The Long Haul *** (1957, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7006

‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller drama film The Long Haul stars Victor Mature, Diana Dors and Patrick Allen. Hughes’s screenplay is […]

May, 06

Good Time Girl *** (1948, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6,978

The 1948 British noir thriller Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as a slum slut who flees her young offenders’ prison, joins crooks, kills a copper drunk-driving, and joins American deserters on a robbery binge, […]

Apr, 29

A Prize of Arms **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Tom Bell, Helmut Schmid, John Phillips, Anthony Bate) – Classic Movie Review 6,327

The gritty 1961 realist British noir crime thriller film A Prize of Arms stars Stanley Baker as a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on the army by planning a daring heist of their payroll […]

Nov, 27

Mine Own Executioner **** (1947, Burgess Meredith, Kieron Moore, Dulcie Gray, Barbara White, Christine Norden) – Classic Movie Review 5854

‘There’s nothing worse than a man who makes you take off your self-respect and keep your clothes on.’ Anthony Kimmins’s 1947 British film noir thriller of Nigel Balchin’s distinguished novel Mine Own Executioner is deservedly […]

Aug, 04

Time without Pity **** (1957, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen, Leo McKern, Ann Todd, Peter Cushing) – Classic Movie Review 5,844

Michael Redgrave stars in Joseph Losey’s 1957 film noir Time without Pity as a hard-drinking father, who comes to London to see if he can rescue his son (Alec McCowen) from execution for murder.  Joseph […]

Aug, 02

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