Derek Winnert

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Hot Enough for June [Agent 8 3/4] ** (1964, Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 8855

In the year after From Russia with Love, The Rank Organisation studios thought it was time to send up secret agents, so they got Dirk Bogarde to play Nicholas Whistler, a bumbling British Czech-fluent writer […]

Aug, 22

Blindfold *** (1966, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter, Anne Seymour, Alejandro Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8818

Co-writer/ director Philip Dunne’s enjoyable 1965 Swinging Sixties comedy crime mystery thriller Blindfold stars Rock Hudson as a New York psychiatrist, Dr Bartholomew Snow, who is hired by American general Prat (Jack Warden) and his […]

Aug, 11

S*P*Y*S * (1974, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Griffith, Vladek Sheybal) – Classic Movie Review 8622

  Director Irwin Kershner’s 1974 S*P*Y*S is a fumbled spy comedy thriller, with the stars of MASH (or M*A*S*H) all at sea and totally wasted. Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland play CIA agents in Paris, […]

Jun, 21

Espionage Agent ** (1939, Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 8020

A pleasant cast assembles for director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Espionage Agent, a once timely but now just low-voltage-seeming black and white paranoia espionage suspense thriller about Nazi spy rings taking over in the American heartlands […]

Jan, 16

Confessions of a Nazi Spy ***½ (1939, Edward G Robinson, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas, George Sanders, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8,023

Warner Brothers take on the Hun in director Anatole Litvak’s 1939 American spy political thriller film Confessions of a Nazi Spy, a timely exposé of Nazis at work in America just before the Second World […]

Jan, 16

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

Jumpin’ Jack Flash *** (1986, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts) – Classic Movie Review 7617

Director Penny Marshall’s 1986 fast-moving spy caper Jumpin’ Jack Flash stars Whoopi Goldberg (Oscar-winner for 1990’s Ghost) as a computer operator who keeps getting messages on her screen from a British agent trapped in Eastern Europe. […]

Sep, 23

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