Derek Winnert

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Portrait in Black **½ (1960, Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, Anna May Wong, Lloyd Nolan, Ray Walston, Virginia Grey ) – Classic Movie Review 10,254

Director Michael Gordon’s 1960 neo noir mystery crime thriller Portrait in Black is based on a play by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, and stars Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, […]

Sep, 01

Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side **** (1992, Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman) – Classic Movie Review 9,646

Alas, all good things have to come to an end. The splendid Joan Hickson takes on her 12th and final case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, in the 1992 TV mystery film The Mirror Crack’d […]

Apr, 17

Paid *** (1930, Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass) – Classic Movie Review 9400

Producer-director Sam Wood’s 1930 Paid [Within the Law] stars Joan Crawford as Mary Turner, who is wrongly jailed for three years as a youngster and comes out seeking justice against the men who put her […]

Feb, 18

Behind That Curtain ** (1929, Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 9069

Director Irving Cummings’s 1929 Behind That Curtain takes its place in movie history as the impossibly creaky but still intriguing first Charlie Chan film in sound. It is based on Earl Derr Biggers’s novel of […]

Nov, 14

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9051

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a gripping series episode with a useful guest star turn from Cesar Romero as a conjurer called Rhadini helping Charlie Chan […]

Nov, 03

The Crystal Ball *** (1943, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field, Cecil Kellaway, William Bendix, Ernest T ruex, Iris Adrian, Mary Fields) – Classic Movie Review 8943

Director Elliott Nugent’s playful 1943 Paramount picture The Crystal Ball is a likeably dizzy if underpowered comedy starring Paulette Goddard as Toni Gerard, a gal from Texas who loses out on a glamour contest (she […]

Sep, 27

Slander *** (1957, Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 8910

Director Roy Rowland’s 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller Slander stars Steve Cochran as slick publisher H R Manley, whose notoriously sleazy gossip scandal magazine blackmails TV children’s entertainer star Scott Ethan Martin […]

Sep, 17

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