Derek Winnert

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Bullet Scars ** (1942, Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire, Howard da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 12,754

The 1942 Warner Bros romantic crime film Bullet Scars stars Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire and Howard da Silva. It is interesting as the third time that the studio made this story. Okay, third time unlucky, […]

Dec, 11 · in Reviews

Dial 999 [The Way Out] *** (1955, Gene Nelson, Mona Freeman, Michael Goodliffe, John Bentley, Michael Golden) – Classic Movie Review 12,753

The 1955 British crime drama film Dial 999 [The Way Out] is a neat, twisty little thriller, based on the novel by Bruce Graeme. It stars Gene Nelson, Mona Freeman and John Bentley. Writer-director Montgomery Tully’s 1955 British […]

Dec, 11 · in Reviews

The Diamond [The Diamond Wizard] ** (1954, Dennis O’Keefe, Margaret Sheridan, Philip Friend, with Alan Wheatley, Francis de Wolff, Paul Hardtmuth) – Classic Movie Review 12,752

The 1954 British film noir crime thriller The Diamond [The Diamond Wizard] stars Dennis O’Keefe as a T-man in the UK on the trail of a syndicate making fake diamonds out of sugar. It is Britain’s first 3D film […]

Dec, 11

Bailout at 43,000 ** (John Payne, Karen Steele, Paul Kelly, Richard Eyer, Constance Ford, Eddie Firestone) – Classic Movie Review 12,751

The 1957 American drama film Bailout at 43,000 is a moderate flag-waver about US airmen testing ejector seats for bombers, with Major Paul Peterson (John Payne) going through a guilt thing about not having to […]

Dec, 10

Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

The Brotherhood of Satan ** (1971, Strother Martin, L Q Jones, Alvy Moore) – Classic Movie Review 12,749

The 1971 horror film The Brotherhood of Satan is a fairly scary, reasonably stylish little chiller, in which witch worship possesses a desert town in the grip of a cult of senior citizens recruiting the […]

Dec, 06

Walk East on Beacon ** (1952, George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 12,748

The ‘Red threat’ of the Fifties was the main motivating influence – as well as J Edgar Hoover – behind the smooth 1952 Columbia Pictures drama thriller film Walk East on Beacon about the FBI […]

Dec, 06

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