Derek Winnert

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Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]

Sep, 21

White Lightning *** (1973, Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Matt Clark, Bo Hopkins, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd) – Classic Movie Review 7570

Director Joseph Sargent’s 1973 movie White Lightning is a good vehicle for Burt Reynolds, who plays convict Gator McKlusky, who is released from jail to help the Feds to chase sadistic lawman Sheriff J C Connors […]

Sep, 13

White Line Fever *** (1975, Jan-Michael Vincent, Kay Lenz, Slim Pickens, L Q Jones, Don Porter, R G Armstrong, Dick Miller) – Classic Movie Review 6737

Co-writer/ director Jonathan Kaplan’s intense and credible 1975 crime action drama movie about American truck drivers stars Jan-Michael Vincent as Carrol Jo Hummer, who initially rides with his Tucson, Arizona, father Sam (Frank Kennedy) as partners: Sam Hummer and Son. But […]

Feb, 26

Everybody Wins ** (1990, Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 6633

Director Karel Reisz’s 1990 thriller Everybody Wins stars Nick Nolte as a private eye who is called to a peaceful New England town by a quirky, beguiling, perhaps unstable hooker (Debra Winger) to prove a […]

Feb, 01

Night Falls on Manhattan **** (1996, Andy García, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 6042

Sidney Lumet is on fine form with the excellent 1996 crime thriller film Night Falls on Manhattan starring Andy Garcia as newly elected District Attorney Sean Casey, keen to eradicate police corruption. Writer-director Sidney Lumet is on […]

Sep, 24

Sanjuro [Tsubaki Sanjûrô] ****½ (1962, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 4925

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa is in a much lighter mood for his follow-up to Yojimbo. But it is another thrilling action-filled samurai action adventure, with the great Toshirô Mifune on his best form in the title […]

Jan, 23

Walking Tall ***½ (1973, Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jnr, Rosemary Murphy, Leif Garrett, Lurene Tuttle, Dawn Lyn) – Classic Movie Review 4708

Quintessential tough-guy Joe Don Baker gets one of his best roles and gives a sterling performance as real-life Southern sheriff Buford Pusser, who scarily carries a baseball bat and takes the law into his own […]

Nov, 27

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