Derek Winnert

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Calling Paul Temple *** (1948, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Abraham Sofaer, Margaretta Scott, Celia Lipton, Alan Wheatley, Jack Raine) – Classic Movie Review 4,487

The 1948 British mystery crime thriller film Calling Paul Temple is the welcome, much improved second film in the series of four, based on Francis Durbridge’s film script Paul Temple and the Canterbury Case, and […]

Oct, 18

The Crimson Rivers [Les Rivières Pourpres] * (2000, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 4452

The formidable duo of Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel star as Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, a pair of French policemen who are drawn together by a series of grisly murders and a graveyard desecration in Jean-Christophe Grangé’s […]

Oct, 03

The Black Torment **½ (1964, Heather Sears, John Turner, Ann Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 4443

‘Terror Creeps From the Fringe of the Fear to the Pit of Panic.’ Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s creepy 1964 British Rebecca-style chiller The Black Torment is set in 1780 in England, where a baron’s new second […]

Oct, 01

The Sorcerers ***½ (1967, Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy, Elizabeth Ercy, Victor Henry, Susan George) – Classic Movie Review 4440

Co-writer/ director Michael Reeves’s gripping 1967 British horror movie stars Boris Karloff as nice hypnosis scientist Professor Marcus Montserrat and Catherine Lacey as his wicked wife Estelle who invent a long-distance hypnosis machine and involve young […]

Oct, 01

Tower of London **** (1939, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O’Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Leo G Carroll, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 4438

Producer-director Rowland V Lee’s stirring 1939 Universal horror movie successfully reworks William Shakespeare’s play Richard III as a rousing Gothic historical chiller, shot by George Robinson in classy black and white. Basil Rathbone stars as […]

Oct, 01

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

Highwaymen ***½ (2004, Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore) – Classic Movie Review 4403

Jim Caviezel stars as Rennie Cray, who hunts his wife’s crazy hit-and-run serial killer in director Robert Harmon’s slick, stylish and speedy 2004 crime action thriller that mixes Duel, Crash (1996) and Road Kill to driving effect. […]

Sep, 24

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