Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "murder mystery"

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No Man’s Woman *** (1955, Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates, Jil Jarmyn, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 7609

Republic Pictures’ thoroughly enjoyable 1955 film noir No Man’s Woman gives Marie Windsor a rare, much deserved star role as a scheming femme fatale who double-crosses five people but ends up dead. ‘RUTHLESS, SHAMELESS! – There Was Only One […]

Sep, 21

Murder in Three Acts ** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil, Fernando Allende, Pedro Armedariz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7208

Director Gary Nelson’s moderate 1986 Agatha Christie murder thriller Murder in Three Acts offers a new mystery to solve for Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates some suspicious deaths by poison after he […]

Jun, 23

Murder on the Orient Express ** (2017, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]

Nov, 03

Cutter’s Way [Cutter and Bone] **** (1981, Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 5799

Director Ivan Passer’s involving and gripping 1981 film version of Newton Thornburg’s novel Cutter and Bone is always fascinating, with lovely performances from ideally cast Jeff Bridges and John Heard in their prime. It is […]

Jul, 23

The Cat and the Canary **** (1939, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 4,426

Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard star in the funny, though still scary 1939 remake of the spooky house thriller The Cat and the Canary  Director Elliott Nugent remakes director Paul Leni’s famed 1927 silent classic […]

Sep, 28

Tightrope **** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya) – Classic Movie Review 3815

Writer-director Richard Tuggle’s 1984 thriller is admittedly nasty and violent, but it also exciting, tense and suspenseful – and an underestimated, perhaps often misunderstood movie. It is rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, terror, violence and […]

Jun, 06

Death on the Nile **** (1978, Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Jon Finch, Jack Warden, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, Harry Andrews, Jane Birkin, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 1299

Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]

Jun, 07

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