Derek Winnert

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Experiment Perilous *** (1944, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Lukas, George Brent, Albert Dekker, Margaret Wycherly, Julia Dean, Carl Esmond, Olive Blakeney) – Classic Movie Review 6,861

Jacques Tourneur’s stylish, eerie and entertaining 1944 Gothic romantic film noir thriller Experiment Perilous is based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter. It stars the fine team of Hedy Lamarr, Paul Lukas and George Brent. […]

Mar, 26

Bureau of Missing Persons *** (1933, Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 6857

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros crime melodrama quickly made thriller stars Bette Davis as Norma Roberts, who is looking for her husband, and then she is being sought by Chicago police for his murder. […]

Mar, 26

Bordertown **** (1935, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6855

Director Archie Mayo’s entertaining 1935 Bordertown tale of trouble and strife in a Mexican border town is an impressive crime drama movie, co-scripted by producer Robert Lord, who adapts Carroll Graham’s novel, which was reworked as […]

Mar, 25

The Last Wagon **** (1956, Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Tommy Rettig, Susan Kohner, Ray Stricklyn, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6,831

Delmer Daves’s notable 1956 Western film The Last Wagon stars Richard Widmark as sheriff’s prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, who is forced to help a wagon train of settlers against hostile Apaches. Co-writer/ director Delmer Daves’s notable […]

Mar, 20

Madame X ** (1965, Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Constance Bennett, Burgess Meredith, Keir Dullea) – Classic Movie Review 6817

Lana Turner stars in the seventh film version of the old theatrical chestnut based on the ancient Alexandre Bisson play about Holly Parker, a wealthy woman on trial for murder who is defended by an […]

Mar, 18

Mom and Dad ** (2017, Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur) – Movie Review

Writer-director Brian Taylor’s Mom and Dad has its charms, though it is far from charming. To be fair, it doesn’t set out to be charming but nevertheless to charm you with its whacked-out sense (?) […]

Mar, 11

Murder by Death **** (1976, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood) – Classic Movie Review 6788

Director Robert Moore’s clever and witty 1976 comedy parodies a number of famous detectives, with Peter Sellers indulging himself as Sidney Wang in a spoof of Charlie Chan, Peter Falk as Sam Diamond in a spoof […]

Mar, 11

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