Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Film noir"

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Kid Glove Killer **** (1942, Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 7243

Debut director Fred Zinnemann’s finely honed, tensely atmospheric 1942 film noir suspense thriller Kid Glove Killer stars Van Heflin, who gives a nifty turn in an early star role as Gordon McKay, a police forensic […]

Jul, 02

The Driver **** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7,048

Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]

May, 13

I Wake Up Screaming [Hot Spot] **** (1941, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Elisha Cook Jr, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 6586

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s winning 1941 20th Century Fox movie stars Victor Mature as star promoter Frankie Christopher, who is suspected when his protégée actress client Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis) is murdered. Then her sister […]

Jan, 21

Angel Face ****½ (1953, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall, Barbara O’Neil, Leon Ames, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 6,397

Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]

Dec, 12

The Unsuspected **** (1947, Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield) – Classic Movie Review 6,341

Claude Rains stars in Warner Bros’ enjoyably far-fetched 1947  film noir mystery movie The Unsuspected as a suave radio host turned murderer who investigates his own perfect murder on his crime mystery show. Joan Caulfield […]

Dec, 01

Nightmare Alley **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6128

Director Edmund Goulding’s haunting 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nightmare Alley is based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who becomes a carnival barker […]

Oct, 23

Night Moves ***½ (1975, Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Jennifer Warren, James Woods, Melanie Griffith ) – Classic Movie Review 6,020

Arthur Penn’s dark-toned, complex 1975 neo-noir thriller film Night Moves stars Gene Hackman as Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby, who searches for the missing teenage daughter of a former movie actress. Director Arthur Penn’s […]

Sep, 13

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