Derek Winnert

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The Assassination of Trotsky ** (1972, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 5839

Something has gone wrong here with director Joseph Losey’s plodding, unmoving 1972 film about the last days of Leon Trotsky (a somewhat miscast Richard Burton) in a Mexican fortress in 1940. Alain Delon plays his […]

Aug, 02

Permission to Kill [The Executioner] ** (1975, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton, Bekim Fehmiu, Frederic Forrest, Nicole Calfan) – Classic Movie Review 4597

Director Cyril Frankel’s dreary, dour and preposterous 1975 spy thriller was a setback to its star Dirk Bogarde, then at the peak of his serious movie career after Victim (1961), The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965), Accident (1967), […]

Nov, 06

The Falcon’s Brother **½ (1942, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Keye Luke, Don Barclay, Cliff Clark) – Classic Movie Review 3209

A tale of two Falcons: with so much going on, there is never a dull moment in The Falcon’s Brother. Director Stanley Logan’s 1942 black and white B-movie thriller The Falcon’s Brother again stars George […]

Jan, 01

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