Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Agatha Christie"

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Murder on the Orient Express ** (2017, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]

Nov, 03

Endless Night ** (1972, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson, Lois Maxwell, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 4033

Writer-director Sidney Gilliat re-pairs the hit young star-player team from The Family Way (1966) and Twisted Nerve (1968), Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, for another creepy thriller, a heavily reworked 1972 film version of a well-regarded Agatha Christie […]

Jul, 16

Appointment with Death *** (1988, Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, Piper Laurie, David Soul, John Gielgud, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove) – Classic Movie Review 3662

Director Michael Winner goes to Israel to film Agatha Christie’s escapist vintage mystery thriller novel Appointment with Death in 1988 and the delightful Peter Ustinov amusingly impersonates the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for the sixth […]

May, 05

And Then There Were None * (1974, Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 3263

Oliver Reed stars in the 1974 mystery thriller film And Then There Were None, a strongly cast remake of Agatha Christie’s ingenious 1939 classic novel, the world’s best-selling mystery with more than 100 million sales. […]

Jan, 13

And Then There Were None ***** (1945, Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3,264

French film director René Clair turns Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel and play into the richly stylish 1945 American black comedy mystery thriller film And Then There Were None. It is a great piece of […]

Jan, 13

Ten Little Indians ** (1989, Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur Thorp, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Moira Lister, Neil McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 3262

Director Alan Birkinshaw’s just acceptable British 1989 thriller is the fourth of the four movie versions of Agatha Christie’s famous whodunit detective novel about 10 people invited by a mysterious stranger to an isolated location […]

Jan, 12

Ten Little Indians *** (1965, Wilfrid Hyde White, Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway, Leo Genn, Shirley Eaton, Hugh O’Brian, Daliah Lavi, Fabian Forte) – Classic Movie Review 3261

Director George Pollock’s acceptable British 1965 thriller is the second of four movie versions of Agatha Christie’s famous whodunit detective novel about 10 people invited by a mysterious stranger to a remote spot (this time […]

Jan, 12

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