Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "murder"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "murder".

Tom and Huck *** (1995, Brad Renfro, Jonathan Taylor, Thomas Eric Schweig) – Classic Movie Review 3518

Friendship and loyalty are the topics of the day as Jonathan Taylor Thomas’s Tom Sawyer and Brad Renfro’s Huck Finn face a life-or-death decision when they witness Injun Joe killing Doc Robinson one night in […]

Apr, 03

Sign of the Pagan *** (1954, Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Rita Gam, Ludmilla Tchérina) – Classic Movie Review 3494

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1954 historical adventure epic stars Jack Palance, who cuts a memorable figure as Atilla the Hun, parading in breastplate armour and trying to obliterate Rome. But meanwhile Jeff Chandler is splendidly miscast […]

Mar, 23

Shock Corridor **** (1963, Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans) – Classic Movie Review 3491

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor is the heated, pulsating 1963 tale of an ambitious journalist newsman, Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), who sets off to investigate on the trail of a knife killing of a patient in […]

Mar, 22

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter **** (1974, James Garner, Lindsay Wagner, Joe Santos, William Smith, Nita Talbot, Stuart Margolin, Bill Mumy, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 3489

James Garner creates the role he was born for – the cynical ex-convict turned private eye Jim Rockford who investigates cases the cops can’t solve – in this extremely engaging pilot for his hit TV […]

Mar, 20

Run of the Arrow **** (1957, Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 3469

Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is an ambitious, tough, odd Western and it is one of the important works of cult film-maker Fuller, who said: ‘Rod Steiger overdoes it and I had to keep an […]

Mar, 12

Hell Is a City ***½ (1959, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Warren Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3461

Stanley Baker finds a strong vehicle in Hammer Films’ unusually energetic, atmospheric and swift-moving 1959 vintage crime thriller Hell Is a City, atmospherically shot largely on exteriors in Manchester, and topped of with an exciting, […]

Mar, 08

Heathers **** (1988, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker) – Classic Movie Review 3449

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1988 satirical crime comedy Heathers is now an Eighties cult classic and gives an iconic role to Winona Ryder, who stars as the intelligent teenaged Veronica Sawyer, a member of a snobby elite high […]

Mar, 04

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.