Derek Winnert

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Villain *** (1971, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Sinden, T P McKenna, Fiona Lewis, Tony Selby, Colin Welland) – Classic Movie Review 7065

Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but distasteful 1971 movie Villain is an effective but unattractive and revoltingly violent British gangster thriller, with Richard Burton giving a strong account of himself in an extremely nasty and unsympathetic […]

May, 17

Blind Date [Chance Meeting] *** (1959, Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, Robert Flemyng, Gordon Jackson, John Van Eyssen, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 5841

Director Joseph Losey’s smart 1959 British murder mystery Blind Date [Chance Meeting], mostly told in flashback, stars Hardy Kruger as Jan Van Rooyer, a young Dutch painter in London who discovers the body of his […]

Aug, 02

Lured [Personal Column] **** (1947, Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 5,516

Douglas Sirk’s 1947 film noir serial killer thriller Lured really is a bit of a little gem. It is quite creepy – Lucille Ball as a dancer in danger and lots of old guys, among […]

May, 29

Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] ***½ (1958, Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Anna Lee, Andrew Ray, Anna Massey, Frank Lawton, John Loder, Cyril Cusack, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 5152

Producer-director John Ford’s engrossing and compelling 1958 British thriller Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] stars an ideally cast Jack Hawkins as harassed plain-clothes police inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who is having quite […]

Mar, 13

The Long Arm [The Third Key] **** (1956, Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 5151

Director Charles Frend’s 1956 British Ealing Studios thriller stars Jack Hawkins, an always welcome and more than capable player, at least when he was properly cast, unlike his Pharaoh Khufu in the previous year’s Land of the […]

Mar, 13

The Notorious Landlady ***½ (1962, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 5,112

Loveable Jack Lemmon squeezes in a juicy comedy performance in Richard Quine’s amusing and stylish 1962 screwball comedy-cum-mystery The Notorious Landlady. Lemmon partners with Kim Novak, who designed her own gowns. Bill Gridley (Jack Lemmon) […]

Mar, 06

Sapphire **** (1959, Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 5057

Director Basil Dearden’s pioneering issue-led 1959 British murder thriller Sapphire stars Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Paul Massie, Bernard Miles, Gordon Heath, Earl Cameron, Olga Lindo, Rupert Davies and Peter Vaughan. Dearden won the 1960 […]

Feb, 24

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