Derek Winnert

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Deadly Record *** (1959, Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley, Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 13,930

Lee Patterson stars as an airline pilot wrongly accused of his faithless wife’s murder, in the enjoyable 1959 British second feature crime drama film Deadly Record. Director Lawrence Huntington’s enjoyable 1959 British second feature crime drama film Deadly Record is written […]

May, 20

Kansas City Confidential **** (1952, John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7556

Director Phil Karlson’s taut, tense, crisp, and expertly made little 1952 black and white film noir thriller Kansas City Confidential [The Secret Four] stars John Payne, Coleen Gray and Preston Foster, and is based on […]

Sep, 10

Loophole ***½ (1954, Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes, Don Beddoe) – Classic Movie Review 4467

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1953 little gem of a thriller stars Barry Sullivan as Mike Donovan, a bank worker who has to find the real robber after he is falsely accused of stealing $50,000 from his […]

Oct, 08

The Life of Emil Zola **** (1937, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Vladimir Sokoloff, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 3131

Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]

Dec, 05

The Wrong Man ***** (1956, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 387

Roman Catholic to its very soul, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 true-life near docudrama is a devastating portrait of a guiltless victim and his martyrdom. It’s the story of a tormented, Christ-like figure. This time, it’s not […]

Nov, 10

The Hunt – Film Review

Thomas Winerberg’s 2012 Danish masterwork The Hunt is a totally harrowing, devastatingly emotional and intellectual experience. Mads Mikkelsen gives an astonishing, fearless tour-de-force, deserving his Cannes Best Actor win as sweet and innocent junior teacher Lucas, […]

Aug, 29

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