Derek Winnert

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Family Business *** (1989, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8031

Sean Connery has good fun with his role as an ageing small-time hoodlum, a career criminal called Jessie, in director Sidney Lumet’s excellent, well-plotted 1989 heist thriller Family Business. It is sharply directed by Lumet, […]

Jan, 18

Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029

Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]

Jan, 18

Bad Influence **** (1990, Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Kathleen Wilhoite) – Classic Movie Review 4393

Director Curtis Hanson’s dark, weird and sexy 1990 American psychological thriller film noir Bad Influence stars Rob Lowe and James Spader. It is based on an original script by David Koepp, launching his career. James […]

Sep, 21

High Sierra ***** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 1,348

Raoul Walsh’s 1941 thriller film High Sierra is a terrific action/ adventure film noir featuring Humphrey Bogart in yet another one of his iconic roles as notorious career criminal Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle. It made […]

Jun, 21

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