Derek Winnert

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The Fiend Who Walked the West ** (1958, Hugh O’Brian, Dolores Michaels, Robert Evans, Edward Andrews, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Ron Ely) – Classic Movie Review 6086

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1958 film The Fiend Who Walked the West is a full-blooded Western reworking of ideas from the 1947 Kiss of Death, with Robert Evans going enjoyably over the top as a psychotic murderer […]

Oct, 12

The Criminal [Concrete Jungle] **** (1960, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 5843

Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]

Aug, 02

Man in the Dark *** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 5186

Director Lew Landers’s 1953 film noir thriller stars the always excellent Edmond O’Brien, Audrey Totter and Ted de Corsia, is filmed in 3D and is based on a story by Henry Altimus and Tom Van […]

Mar, 21

A Night in Casablanca ***½ (1946, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Sig Ruman, Lisette Verea, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Dan Seymour) – Classic Movie Review 3064

Director Archie Mayo’s entirely enjoyable enough 1946 comedy finds the Marx Brothers still happily crazy and subversive in their later years. It introduced the song ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’, which became a bigger hit than the […]

Nov, 14

Loot ***½ (1970, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Roy Holder, Lee Remick, Milo O’Shea, Dick Emery, Joe Lynch, John Cater, Aubrey Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2971

Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]

Oct, 10

Kangaroo Jack * (2003, Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken) – Bad Movie 7

Director David McNally’s 2003 comedy for producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bad. In a lull in his brilliant career, Christopher Walken plays a Mob boss called Salvatore ‘Sal’ Maggio, who despatches his New York hairstylist stepson […]

Jul, 13

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