Derek Winnert

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Man in the Attic ** (1953, Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory, Isabel Jewell) – Classic Movie Review 12,346

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 thriller mystery film Man in the Attic stars Jack Palance, who is well cast and relishes his meaty role as a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer suspect in this retread of […]

Nov, 24

The Diary of Anne Frank *** (1980, Melissa Gilbert, Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright, Doris Roberts, James Coco, Scott Jacoby, Clive Revill) – Classic Movie Review 12,332

Melissa Gilbert is excellent as Anne Frank in director Boris Sagal’s strongly cast, stalwart, moving 1980 TV movie remake of the 1959 feature film The Diary of Anne Frank. It re-tells the real-life story of […]

Oct, 20

Attic movies

Attics are known for being awkwardly shaped spaces with exposed rafters, difficult-to-reach corners, and hard to access. They can be safe havens or places of threat, so what are they in the movies? Attic movie number […]

Oct, 03

Dorian [Pact with the Devil] ** (2003, Malcolm McDowell, Ethan Erickson, Victoria Sanchez, Christoph Waltz, Amy Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 12,179

Malcolm McDowell and Ethan Erickson star in the 2003 film Dorian [Pact with the Devil], updated from Oscar Wilde’s novel about an ambitious young man who sells his soul to the devil, ageless while his […]

Jun, 17

Dorian Gray *** (1970, Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl) – Classic Movie Review 12,178

Divine decadence with Helmut Berger as the perfect, beautiful, debauched-looking Dorian in the 1970 Oscar Wilde sexploitation film Dorian Gray.  Co-writer/ director Massimo Dallamano’s 1970 Euromovie Dorian Gray stars Helmut Berger, who makes the perfect, beautiful, […]

Jun, 16

The Invisible Man ** (2020, Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Michael Dorman) – Movie Review

Elisabeth Moss stars in The Invisible Man (2020) as Cecilia, who runs from her abusive lover, Adrian, who then apparently takes his own life. But Adrian has faked his own death and has been hiding […]

Mar, 08

The Diary of Anne Frank **** (1959, Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker) – Classic Movie Review 4703

Director George Stevens’s harrowing 1959 wartime drama The Diary of Anne Frank films Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s Broadway play based on Anne Frank’s diaries to very considerable success as a triple-Oscar-winner for Best Supporting […]

Nov, 26

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