Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "war criminal"

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The House on Carroll Street **** (1987, Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin) – Classic Movie Review 8227

Director Peter Yates’s impeccable 1987 thriller The House on Carroll Street stars Kelly McGillis in her prime, at the peak of her popularity and on fine form as Emily Crane, a Fifties witchhunt blacklist victim, […]

Mar, 11

None Shall Escape **** (1944, Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 7539

‘I would rather die than be forced into a Nazi Officer’s Club!’ Director André De Toth’s 1944 wartime film None Shall Escape was the first to depict the horrors of the Holocaust and harsh realities […]

Sep, 04

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

Tokyo Joe *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, Florence Marly, Alexander Knox, Sessue Hayakawa, Jerome Courtland, Gordon Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5,068

Humphrey Bogart stars in the 1949 film noir crime thriller Tokyo Joe as American veteran Joe Barrett, who returns to Tokyo after World War Two to try to resume his life as part-owner of a […]

Feb, 26

The Monuments Men *** (2014, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville) – Movie Review

George Clooney directs himself as Frank Stokes, who gets together an unlikely, unfit, over-the-hill World War Two military platoon of art blokes to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners. They’re particularly after […]

Feb, 12

Apt Pupil **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 717

The 16-year-old Brad Renfro stars as teenager Todd Bowden, who suspects his neighbour Arthur Denker (played by Ian McKellen) of being a Nazi war criminal called Kurt Dussander. The lad starts a blackmail campaign against […]

Jan, 18

Marathon Man ***** (1976, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 515

Director John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller about a postgraduate student who runs for his life when he gets mixed up in the pursuit of a Nazi war criminal makes for an ultra-tense, suspenseful and thrilling movie. It […]

Dec, 13

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