Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "cold war"

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The Man in the Road * (1957, Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 12,061

The 1957 British film The Man in the Road, starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit, is a typical 1950s ‘red menace’ Cold War espionage thriller. Director Lance Comfort’s 1957 British black and white thriller […]

Apr, 14

The Innocent * (1993, Anthony Hopkins, Isabella Rossellini, Campbell Scott) – Classic Movie Review 11,931

Director John Schlesinger’s 1993 German/ UK co-production drama film The Innocent has a good cast and an interesting story to tell, but it is a fumbled Cold War thriller with an unconvincing screenplay by Ian […]

Feb, 14

The Man Between ***½ (1953, James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef) – Classic Movie Review 10,950

‘Terror! Vice! Violence! He stopped at nothing!’ James Mason stars as the mystery man in the middle of Carol Reed’s atmospheric Fifties Cold War film noir espionage thriller/ crime drama The Man Between (1953), based […]

Feb, 22

A Gathering of Eagles *** (1963, Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 10,025

Director Delbert Mann’s involving, timely 1963 military adventure drama A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as US Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell, the man the flying boys love to hate when he attempts to […]

Jul, 10

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ***** (1979, Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell, Beryl Reid) – Classic Movie Review 9606

Director John Irvin’s 1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the beautifully acted, meticulously organised TV version of the John le Carré novel about retired espionage agent George Smiley’s search for a mole at the heart of […]

Apr, 06

WarGames **** (1983, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin) – Classic Movie Review 9392

Director John Badham‘s 1983 thriller WarGames is a bang on target sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Matthew Broderick as teenage wiz kid David Lightman, who unwittingly taps his home computer into a top secret United States military super-computer […]

Feb, 16

The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] *** (1953, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia) – Classic Movie Review 9356

Director Julien Duvivier’s 1953 French-Italian comedy film The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] [Le retour de Don Camillo] brings back Fernandel and Gino Cervi happily to the screen. Following the 1952 […]

Feb, 07

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