Derek Winnert

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Boys Cry [La terra dell’abbastanza] **** (2018, Andrea Carpenzano, Matteo Olivetti, Milena Mancini, Max Tortora) – Classic Movie Review 12,495

Matteo Olivetti stars as Mirko, a dangerously impulsive Rome suburban boy involved with small-time gangsters, in the acclaimed first feature film of the D’Innocenzo brothers, the 2018 Italian crime thriller Boys Cry [La terra dell’abbastanza]. […]

May, 06

Highway 301 **** (1950, Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, Robert Webber, Wally Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 12,115

‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]

May, 11

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

Shadow on the Wall *** (1950, Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Nancy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 8967

Director Pat [Patrick] Jackson’s 1950 MGM black and white B-movie psychological thriller Shadow on the Wall is an involved and involving, if predictable, melodramatic psychodrama, distinguished with an early score by André Previn and smartly […]

Oct, 07

Shockproof *** (1949, Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey) – Classic Movie Review 8,459

Douglas Sirk’s smart film noir thriller Shockproof stars Cornel Wilde as a parole officer inveigled into a damaging affair with a murderess ex-convict (Patricia Knight). Sam Fuller writes the screenplay for the married stars. Director […]

May, 12

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

Too Many Crooks **** (1959, Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sidney James, Joe Melia, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 6002

Director Mario Zampi’s nimble and nifty 1959 British crime comedy stars the irreplaceable comedy gods Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Bernard Bresslaw and Sidney James, who of course greatly enliven this daft but amusing satire on racketeer […]

Aug, 30

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