Derek Winnert

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The Seventh Cross *** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Felix Bressart, George Macready, George Zucco, Steven Geray) – Classic Movie Review 9994

  Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1944 The Seventh Cross in an engrossing, intelligent, studio-bound escape adventure, with the excellent actors fleshing out intriguing characters. Spencer Tracy is at his best as George Heisler, one of seven […]

Jul, 03

The House on Telegraph Hill **** (1951, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan) – Classic Movie Review 8228

Director Robert Wise’s 1951 20th Century Fox black and white film noir thriller The House on Telegraph Hill stars Valentina Cortese [aka Valentina Cortesa] as Victoria Kowelska, a Polish concentration camp victim who takes over […]

Mar, 11

The Young Lions *** (1958, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Maximilian Schell, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt) – Classic Movie Review 6087

Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]

Oct, 12

Sophie’s Choice **** (1982, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 4498

Writer-producer-director Alan J Pakula’s quietly devastating 1982 film, faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by William Styron, stars Meryl  Streep, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Sophie, the enigmatic Polish survivor of Nazi concentration […]

Oct, 21

Son of Saul [Saul fia] ***** (2015, Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn) – Movie Review

Hungary-born László Nemes’s shatteringly horrific Auschwitz drama Son of Saul [Saul fia] won the 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and Grand Jury Prize at the […]

Apr, 28

The Pawnbroker ***** (1964, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez) – Classic Movie Review 3470

Rod Steiger said: ‘You think Run of the Arrow is my best film? Haven’t you seen The Pawnbroker?’ Rod Steiger boasts a towering, Oscar-nominated performance as Sol Nazerman, the Jewish pawnbroker in Harlem tormented by […]

Mar, 13

The Big Red One **** (1980, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 3407

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical 1980 war film is spellbinding. His raw, realistic screenplay is based on Fuller’s own experiences of World War Two, as true to historical facts and his personal philosophy as he could make it. The […]

Feb, 25

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