Derek Winnert

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The Traitor [The Accursed] ** (1957, Donald Wolfit, Robert Bray, Jane Griffiths, Carl Jaffe, Anton Diffring, Oscar Quitak, Rupert Davies, Christopher Lee, John Van Eyssen, Karel Stepanek) – Classic Movie Review 13,801

Donald Wolfit’s deliciously over-the-top performance is perhaps the best reason out of many for watching the 1957 low-budget British murder mystery thriller The Traitor [The Accursed] set at the annual reunion of a fighting force. […]

Dec, 02

Nightmare ** (1942, Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell, Eustace Wyatt, David Clyde, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 12,165

Brian Donlevy plays an ex-gambler who helps beautiful widow Diana Barrymore and becomes involved with a murder, spies and saboteurs, in the 1942 thriller Nightmare. Director Tim Whelan’s 1942 American Universal Pictures black and white […]

Jun, 08

Conspirator * (1949, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, Marjorie Fielding, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 11,379

Director Victor Saville’s undistinguished 1949 American-British film noir suspense espionage crime thriller film Conspirator stars Robert Taylor as British Guards officer Major Michael Curragh, who is a Russian Communist spy (you can tell because he […]

Jul, 10

A Question of Attribution **** (1991, James Fox, Prunella Scales, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9270

‘Awfully able man, that’s the tragedy of it.’ A Question of Attribution (1991) is a careful and opulent transfer to film by director John Schlesinger of Alan Bennett’s witty and wise one-act play, with most […]

Jan, 16

Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939

Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]

Sep, 25

The Human Factor ** (1979, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 8602

Otto Preminger’s 1979 spy film The Human Factor adapts the Graham Greene novel about an apparently innocent man, Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson), suspected of being an MI6 mole. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s feeble, uninspired 1979 British […]

Jun, 17

The Jigsaw Man * (1983, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8494

Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the stars of the 1972 Sleuth, reunited for director Terence Young’s disastrously disappointing 1984 British double agent spy thriller The Jigsaw Man, which was afflicted by money problems and halted […]

May, 24

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