Derek Winnert

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A Woman’s Face **** (1941, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt) – Classic Movie Review 6080

Director George Cukor’s 1941 film noir-style thriller drama A Woman’s Face provides a quintessential vehicle for Joan Crawford as Anna Holm, a blackmailer who cannot get over the psychological damage of her face scarred in […]

Oct, 11

The Dark Half ** (1992, Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Royal Dano, Robert Joy) – Classic Movie Review 5780

Writer-director George A Romero works outside the comfort zone of his low-budget zombie Dawn of the Dead formula with his intriguing, ambitious but messy 1992 film version of Stephen King’s 1989 novel, the second best-selling book […]

Jul, 17

Black Angel **** (1946, Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 5518

Director Roy William Neill’s complex, stylish, satisfying top-drawer 1946 film noir mystery thriller Black Angel is securely based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich (aka William Irish). June Vincent stars as nightclub singer Catherine Bennett who […]

May, 29

Rollercoaster *** (1977, George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark, Susan Strasberg, Harry Guardino, Henry Fonda) – Classic Movie Review 5425

Director James Goldstone’s 1977 movie is a smooth-running, fast-paced typically Seventies disaster-movie thriller, produced by Jennings Lang and released by Universal Pictures. It stars George Segal and Richard Widmark as safety-inspector Harry Calder (Segal) and […]

May, 10

Time to Kill **** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Ethel Griffies, James Seay, Doris Merrick) – Classic Movie Review 2497

Time to Kill (1942) is the first screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window and the final Michael Shayne film starring Lloyd Nolan made at Fox, which then closed down their popular B-movie […]

May, 17

The Woman in the Window ***** (1944, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2174

Fritz Lang’s superb 1944 film noir thriller The Woman in the Window stars Edward G Robinson as a professor obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to his men’s club. While […]

Feb, 13

The Reckless Moment ****½ (1949, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2143

Director Max Ophüls‘s uber-tense and super-stylish 1949 film noir suspense thriller is set in Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles. It stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, an American middle-class mother becomes increasingly deranged after she discovers […]

Feb, 01

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