Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "war crime"

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The Man from Colorado *** (1948, Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew) – Classic Movie Review 10,957

‘They Turned the West Into a Jungle of Male Killing Male for a Woman!’ Good work from Glenn Ford, relishing his rare bad guy role, is upstaged by an even better William Holden as his […]

Feb, 23

Hearts of the World *** (1918, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron) – Classic Movie Review 10,198

D W Griffith’s famed 1918 silent World War One flagwaver propaganda drama Hearts of the World has a scenario by Griffith, in which a French family suffers as their son, Douglas Gordon Hamilton (Robert Harron) […]

Aug, 19

The Odessa File*** (1974, Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell) – Classic Movie Review 9146

Director Ronald Neame’s 1974 The Odessa File stars a well-cast Jon Voight, who scored a big hit in this Frederick Forsyth thriller about a freelance German reporter called Peter Miller (Voight) on the trail of […]

Dec, 11

Music Box **** (1989, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 6666

Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1989 thriller Music Box stars Jessica Lange as successful  American attorney Ann Talbot, who is shocked and devastated when her loving, hardworking, patriotic Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused […]

Feb, 09

Rhapsody in August [Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî] **** (1991, Sachiko Murasé, Hisashi Igawa, Richard Gere) – Classic Movie Review 6424

Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s small-scale 1991 Japanese film made in his old age at 81 tackles all the big subjects – the bomb, war guilt, forgiveness, life, death, the future and the whole darned thing. Kurosawa’s screenplay […]

Dec, 17

Land of Mine [Under sandet] **** (2015, Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman) – Movie Review

Roland Møller stars as Danish Sergeant Carl Rasmussen who supervises a group of young German PoWs forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines in post-World War Two Denmark. Writer-director Martin Zandvliet’s important, beautiful and moving Oscar-nominated Best Foreign […]

Aug, 12

Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

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