Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

The Lone Wolf Strikes *** (1940, Warren William, Eric Blore, Joan Perry, Alan Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 12,903

Columbia Pictures’ 1940 crime thriller The Lone Wolf Strikes is the second Lone Wolf film starring roguish smoothie Warren William as retired jewel thief Michael Lanyard. Eric Blore takes over amusingly as bumbling butler Jamison. […]

May, 30 · in Reviews

Echo Park *** (1986, Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, Michael Bowen) – Classic Movie Review 12,902

The lovely, really rather special 1986 comedy-drama film Echo Park stars Susan Dey, Tom Hulce and Michael Bowen, and follows the lives of Los Angeles aspiring actors, musicians and models. Director Robert Dornhelm’s 1986 Austria/ […]

May, 29 · in Reviews

Echoes of a Summer ** (1976, Jodie Foster, Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Geraldine Fitzgerald, William Windom, Brad Savage) – Classic Movie Review 12,901

Jodie Foster stars as little 11-year-old Deirdre Striden, who is dying of heart disease, in the sad 1976 family drama film Echoes of a Summer. Richard Harris and Lois Nettleton play her desperate parents. Director […]

May, 29

Johnny Handsome ** (1989, Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker, Lance Henriksen, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 12,900

Walter Hill’s misfiring 1989 neo-noir crime thriller film Johnny Handsome stars the exceptional team of Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker, Lance Henriksen, and Scott Wilson. Director Walter Hill’s 1989 neo-noir […]

May, 29

Echo of Diana ** (1963, Vincent Ball, Betty McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 12,899

Butcher’s Film Services’ 1963 British black and white B-movie thriller film Echo of Diana stars two likeable long-time resident Australians in Britain, Vincent Ball and Betty McDowall. Director Ernest Morris’s 1963 British Butcher’s Film Services […]

May, 28

Evil [Ondskan] **** (2003, Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Gustaf Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 12,898

The nightmarishly disturbing and distressing 2003 Swedish drama film Evil [Ondskan] is set in 1958 in an elite private boarding school in Stockholm, where student sadism and violence are the habitual way of life. Director […]

May, 28

Her Favourite Husband [The Taming of Dorothy] ** (1950, Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Gordon Harker, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 12,897

The 1950 British/ Italian comedy film Her Favourite Husband set in sunny Italy with stars Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Gordon Harker and Margaret Rutherford can’t be all bad, but it tries hard. Director Mario Soldati’s […]

May, 27

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