Derek Winnert

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The Mad Game *** (1933, Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Ralph Morgan, J Carrol Naish, John Miljan, Howard Lally, Matt McHugh, Kathleen Burke) – Classic Movie Review 12,779

Spencer Tracy is excellent as a bootlegging gangster, in the busy 1933 mob movie The Mad Game. Director Irving Cummings’s 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama film The Mad Game stars Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, […]

Jan, 04

The Switch ** (1963, Anthony Steel, Zena Marshall, Conrad Phillips, Susan Shaw, Jerry Desmonde, Dermot Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 12,125

The Switch (1963) is Susan Shaw’s last film. She ended up living alone and broke in Soho. ‘They say she died of cirrhosis of the liver and she lived next door to prostitutes in Soho. […]

May, 18

Down Three Dark Streets *** (1954, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,186

Broderick Crawford plays the talented FBI man Mr Ripley, who takes over investigating three cases, in the 1954 black and white film noir crime drama Down Three Dark Streets.  Director Arnold Laven’s 1954 black and […]

Aug, 16

Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]

Sep, 21

La Cage [The Trap] *** (1975, Lino Ventura, Ingrid Thulin, William Sabatier) – Classic Movie Review 7052

Lino Ventura and Ingrid Thulin star in the 1975 French psychological crime drama La Cage [The Trap]. Lino Ventura stars as Julien and Ingrid Thulin as Hélène in the entertaining, amusing and touching 1975 French […]

May, 14

Down Terrace ** (2009, Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin) – Classic Movie Review 3845

A Brighton crime family of small-time, drug-supplier crooks try to unmask a police informer who sent the father and son to jail in this cheaply made Brit black-comedy crime drama thriller, ingeniously filmed almost entirely […]

Jun, 11

The Funeral **** (1996, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn) – Classic Movie Review 259

‘God made  the world. I’m just makin’ do with what I got.’ – Ray Tempio. Abel Ferrara’s critically acclaimed 1996 Mob family crime drama, set in New York in the Depression era of the 1930s, is […]

Sep, 30

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