Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "B movie"

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Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

The Night of January 16th ** (1941, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,797

Director William Clemens’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white mystery crime drama B-movie The Night of January 16th stars Ellen Drew as secretary Kit Lane who is actually the brunt of an embezzlement scam involving […]

Jan, 16

Rent-a-Cop (1987, Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, James Remar) – Classic Movie Review 10,721

Director Jerry London’s 1988 Rent-a-Cop stars Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli and Robby Benson, who recklessly reconvene after the disaster of the 1975 Lucky Lady and have no more luck this time in a lifeless action […]

Dec, 29

Kidnapped ** (1948, Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O’Herlihy, Roland Winters, Jeff Corey, Houseley Stevenson, Erskine Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 10,699

Director William Beaudine’s 1948 Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation/ Monogram Pictures poverty row double feature film adventure Kidnapped is another antique American version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, this time with Roddy McDowall as the boy […]

Dec, 23

The Desert Hawk ** (1950, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, George Macready, Rock Hudson, Jackie Gleason, Joie Besser) – Classic Movie Review 10,635

Director Frederick de Cordova’s handsome, feisty, infectiously gleeful 1950 Universal International Pictures Technicolor fantasy adventure The Desert Hawk stars Yvonne De Carlo as Princess Scheherazade and Richard Greene as Omar the blacksmith, aka The Desert […]

Dec, 06

The Fearmakers *** (1958, Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Mel Tormé, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg, Kelly Thordsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,621

‘MASTERS OF FEAR! MASTERS OF INTRIGUE! MERCHANTS OF MURDER!’ Director Jacques Tourneur’s anti-Communist 1958 black and white film noir crime thriller The Fearmakers stars Dana Andrews as brainwashed Korean War veteran Alan Eaton, who comes […]

Dec, 03

Railroaded! *** (1947, John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph) – Classic Movie Review 10,448

Director Anthony Mann’s neat and well-plotted 1947 low-budget crime thriller Railroaded! stars John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, and Jane Randolph. It is an incisive, dour, dark-toned little 40s film-noir mobster tale with John Ireland […]

Oct, 22

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