Derek Winnert

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Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] ***½ (1958, Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Anna Lee, Andrew Ray, Anna Massey, Frank Lawton, John Loder, Cyril Cusack, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 5152

Producer-director John Ford’s engrossing and compelling 1958 British thriller Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] stars an ideally cast Jack Hawkins as harassed plain-clothes police inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who is having quite […]

Mar, 13

River’s Edge **** (1986, Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Roxana Zal, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 5132

Director Tim Hunter’s notable 1986 cult success River’s Edge boasts outstanding, memorable eccentric acting turns from Dennis Hopper as Feck, a crippled drugs supplier, and Crispin Glover as Layne, a crazy customer. Neal Jimenez is […]

Mar, 10

Kong: Skull Island *** (2017, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman, John C Reilly) – Movie Review

It is 1971, and America is afflicted by the twin monsters of the Vietnam War and Nixon, and a team of explorers and soldiers want to get away from it all – and travel to […]

Mar, 08

The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone **** (1961, Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Jeremy Spenser, Coral Browne, Ernest Thesiger, Cleo Laine, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 5117

Director Jose Quintero’s 1961 romantic drama is a highly intriguing film version of Tennessee Williams’s only novel, with Vivien Leigh enjoying herself as Mrs Stone, an ageing American actress staying in a magnificent apartment in Rome, […]

Mar, 07

The Phantom Speaks *** (1945, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 5101

Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]

Mar, 04

Rancid Aluminium * (2000, Rhys Ifans, Joseph Fiennes, Tara Fitzgerald, Steven Berkoff, Sadie Frost, Keith Allen, Dani Behr, Nick Moran, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5098

Ryhs Ifans stars as Pete Thompson, whose father dies and he expects to inherit the family business. But then his crooked accountant Sean Deeny (Joseph Fiennes) plots to sell it off to a Russian mob, […]

Mar, 04

Riff-Raff [Riffraff] *** (1947, Pat O’Brien, Anne Jeffreys, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 4999

Pat O’Brien stars as a conman who gets a map to a Panama oilfield and has to fend off the bad guys who are after it, in the 1947 adventure movie Riff-Raff [Riffraff]. Pat O’Brien […]

Feb, 06

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