Derek Winnert

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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond **** (1960, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 6430

Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]

Dec, 19

Dr Crippen *** (1963, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 5917

‘The crime of the century! Was he really guilty?’ Director Robert Lynn’s 1962 British horror thriller finds Donald Pleasence is ideally cast as Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, the mild English Edwardian doctor who killed his […]

Aug, 14

Patty Hearst *** (1988, Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long) – Classic Movie Review 4482

Director Paul Schrader’s 1988 drama tells the astonishing, and uniquely troubling story of Patty Hearst, the American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists on February 4 1974 before […]

Oct, 18

The St Valentine’s Day Massacre **** (1967, Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 3,896

Jason Robards stars as the notorious mobster Al Capone, and Ralph Meeker plays his deadly rival ‘Bugs’ Moran, in Roger Corman’s modish 1967 cult gangster movie The St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Producer-director Roger Corman’s modish 1967 cult […]

Jun, 20

Essex Boys * (2000, Sean Bean, Charlie Creed-Miles, Alex Kingston, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 1995

Co-writer- director Terri Winsor’s 2000 thriller stars Sean Bean, who plays, very unconvincingly, a violent Essex cabbie called Jason Locke, who falls on hard times and tries to make ends meet by becoming the personal […]

Dec, 23

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