Derek Winnert

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Cry Terror! *** (1958, James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Neville Brand, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 10,600

A lively cast are up to their necks in the plot twists of writer-director Andrew Stone’s unnerving 1958 black and white suspense thriller Cry Terror!. Rod Steiger stars as terrorist Paul Hoplin, who plants a […]

Nov, 29

The Woman on Pier 13 ** (1949, Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Thomas Gomez, Janis Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,330

Film noir meets red scare… Director Robert Stevenson’s 1949 The Woman on Pier 13, a film noir crime drama that is otherwise known as I Married a Communist, is a forced, jingoistically patriotic propaganda piece about […]

Sep, 20

The Doomsday Flight *** (1966, Jack Lord, Edmond O’Brien, Van Johnson, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon, Richard Carlson, Michael Sarrazin, Ed Asner) – Classic Movie Review 10,180

Director William Graham’s tense, credible and exciting 1966 bomb threat TV movie crime thriller The Doomsday Flight is written by Rod Serling and stars Jack Lord, Edmond O’Brien, Van Johnson, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon, Richard […]

Aug, 15

Zatôichi **** (2003, Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Yui Natsukawa) – Classic Movie Review 8716

A blind, sword-bearing masseur takes on the gangs that threaten a 19th century Japanese village in writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano’s gory, feisty, impressive 2003 Japanese movie Zatôichi – one of this fine director’s best. Takeshi Kitano […]

Jul, 16

The Frightened City *** (1961, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Holt, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8052

The frightened city is London, where unexpectedly they are behaving just like in Chicago, as mobsters join a protection syndicate then fall out when gang boss Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks) establishes a mafia of his […]

Jan, 23

Experiment in Terror [Grip of Fear] **** (1962, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Ross Martin, Stefanie Powers) – Classic Movie Review 6859

Director Blake Edwards is best known for his farcical comedies and especially the Pink Panther movies, but here in 1962 he makes a first-rate job of this excellent San Francisco location-shot suspense thriller about a […]

Mar, 26

Pain & Gain **** (2013, Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie) – Movie Review

Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie star as three ambitious but dim Miami bodybuilders just living the American dream in the nineties – kidnapping, torture, extortion, murder and hacking up of body parts. Goodfellas […]

Aug, 13

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