Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Film noir"

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Impact **** (1949, Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker) – Classic Movie Review 8,966

The highly impactful 1949 black and white film noir crime drama Impact stars Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn and Helen Walker. It is B-movie noir thriller film-making par excellence. Director Arthur Lubin’s highly impactful […]

Oct, 07

Danger Signal *** (1945, Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 8938

The 1945 film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal stars the splendidly shifty-looking Zachary Scott as a smooth-talking psychopathic career killer.  Director Robert Florey’s 1945 Warner Bros black and white film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal […]

Sep, 25

Drive a Crooked Road *** (1954, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8914

Director Richard Quine’s gritty 1954 black and white film noir crime drama thriller Drive a Crooked Road offers the 33-year-old Mickey Rooney a useful star role and he grabs it to give a fine performance […]

Sep, 18

Scene of the Crime *** (1949, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, John McIntyre, Donald Woods, Norman Lloyd, Jerome Cowan, Tom Powers) – Classic Movie Review 8,912

The fast and efficient 1949 film noir crime thriller Scene of the Crime stars Van Johnson as a Los Angeles homicide cop handcuffed to a corpse while tracking the killer of an ex-partner. Director Roy […]

Sep, 17

The Midnight Story (1957, Tony Curtis, Marisa Pavan, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 8911

Director Joseph Pevney’s unfairly completely forgotten 1957 Universal International Pictures Pictures CinemaScope black and white film noir crime thriller film The Midnight Story is one of Tony Curtis’s most obscure movies. In an unusual project […]

Sep, 17

Shockproof *** (1949, Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey) – Classic Movie Review 8,459

Douglas Sirk’s smart film noir thriller Shockproof stars Cornel Wilde as a parole officer inveigled into a damaging affair with a murderess ex-convict (Patricia Knight). Sam Fuller writes the screenplay for the married stars. Director […]

May, 12

Nightmare **** (1956, Edward G Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine) – Classic Movie Review 8,394

The 1956 American crime film noir Nightmare stars Kevin McCarthy as a New Orleans big-band clarinettist who has a nightmare in which he sees himself killing a man in a mirrored room. Kevin McCarthy stars in producers William […]

Apr, 24

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