Derek Winnert

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I Stole a Million ***½ (1939, George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 11,414

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1939 Universal Pictures film noir crime thriller I Stole a Million stars George Raft as Down on his luck cab driver Joe Lourik, who gets into an argument with a finance company […]

Jul, 22

Conspiracy Theory ** (1997, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 11,378

Director Richard Donner’s 1997 American political action thriller Conspiracy Theory stars Mel Gibson as an eccentric New York cab driver, Jerry Fletcher, convinced that every event, object and coincidence warns of conspiracy, and that he is the […]

Jul, 10

Dancing with Crime *** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Barry K Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 8498

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1947 mystery crime drama Dancing with Crime is an interesting attempt at a post-war British quickie in the American crime melodrama style starring real-life couple Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim as […]

May, 26

Passport to Shame [Room 43] ** (1958, Diana Dors, Herbert Lom, Eddie Constantine) – Classic Movie Review 8485

Alvin Rakoff’s 1958 British sexploitation drama film Passport to Shame [Room 43] is a downbeat crime tale about a taxi driver (Eddie Constantine), who weds a French woman (Odile Versois) for money and then protects […]

May, 19

Gholam *** (2017, Shahab Hosseini, Nasser Memarzia, Armin Karima) – Movie Review

Good and gritty British Iranian thriller, with an unusual story, a strong central performance by Shahab Hosseini as troubled London cab driver Gholam and striking cinematography that gives a fresh take on a grungy, run-down […]

Jan, 28

Collateral **** (2004, Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Irma P Hall) – Classic Movie Review 529

Director Michael (Heat, Ali, Manhunter) Mann’s very, very good 2004 existential crime thriller tantalisingly conjures up memories of European film noir art movies, especially those of Jean-Pierre Melville. It boasts a fine screenplay by Stuart […]

Dec, 15

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