Derek Winnert

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Confession [The Deadliest Sin] ** (1955, Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton, John Bentley, Peter Hammond) – Classic Movie Review 12,253

‘MOST AMAZING CRIME DRAMA OF THE YEAR! The Door Past Which No Law Could Go.’ Director Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime drama Confession [The Deadliest Sin] stars Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton, John […]

Jul, 28

Cry Danger *** (1951, Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey, Jean Porter) – Classic Movie Review 6,565

Director Robert Parrish’s suspenseful 1951 film noir crime thriller Cry Danger stars Dick Powell as paroled convict Rocky Mulloy, who tries to prove that he was innocent of the robbery he was framed and sentenced to […]

Jan, 15

The Limehouse Golem **** (2016, Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan, Sam Reid) – Movie Review

National treasure Bill Nighy is excellent as London copper John Kildare doggedly on the trail of a Victorian Limehouse serial killer. He involves himself in the fate of Lizzie Cree (Olivia Cooke), who is about to be hanged […]

Aug, 31

L’Auberge Rouge [The Red Inn] **** (1951, Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Julien Carette, Marie-Claire Olivia) – Classic Movie Review 4946

Fernandel’s 1951 classic movie is a gloriously macabre piece of French Grand Guignol black comedy, crisply written by the screen-writing team of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, and expertly handled by director Claude Autant-Lara, who […]

Jan, 27

The Boston Strangler **** (1968, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1683

  Director Richard Fleischer’s 1968 follow-up to his real-life thriller Compulsion is a documentary-style thriller about the capture of a real-life 60s serial killer. It showcases a riveting tour-de-force performance by a heavily made-up, only semi-recognisable Tony Curtis […]

Sep, 17

Deliver Us from Evil *** (2014, Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, Sean Harris, Chris Coy) – Movie Review

Eric Bana is all fired up and gives an excellent, commanding performance as troubled New York Police Department cop Ralph Sarchie, who is investigating some disturbing, inexplicable crimes. Edgar Ramirez is very solid too as Father Mendoza, the […]

Aug, 21

Calvary (2014, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review

Calvary is a mixed blessing. On the one hand we have Brendan Gleeson’s magnificent, layered, textured performance as an Irish priest, Father James Lavelle, an unequivocally good, wise man in a flawed, mad world full of idiots. We […]

Apr, 09

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