Derek Winnert

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By *** (1952, Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Marius Goring, Herbert Lom, Anouk Aimée, Ferdy Mayne, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3,772

The 1952 British suspense crime thriller film The Man Who Watched Trains Go By has four or five inestimable advantages. Notably, it is based on a Georges Simenon novel and stars Claude Rains. Writer-director Harold French’s […]

May, 25

Pillow of Death ** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Brenda Joyce, J Edward Bromberg, George Cleveland, Clara Blandick) – Classic Movie Review 3762

Lon Chaney Jr again stars, this time as Wayne Fletcher, in Universal’s sixth and final Inner Sanctum series mystery as a dodgy-seeming attorney whom the police suspect when his wife is suffocated under a pillow. […]

May, 24

The Frozen Ghost *** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Tala Birell, Martin Kosleck) – Classic Movie Review 3766

Director Harold Young’s chilling 1945 low-budget Inner Sanctum horror mystery again stars Lon Chaney Jr, this time as stage hypnotist/ mentalist Alex Gregor. Normally we are just metaphorically driven mad by our agents, but Gregor is literally driven mad […]

May, 24

Hunted [The Stranger in Between] **** (1952, Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3675

Director Charles Crichton’s 1952 British noir thriller stars Dirk Bogarde as Chris, a murderer on the run who is joined by a small boy, the six-year-old Robbie (Jon Whiteley), running away from the home he […]

May, 08

Underworld USA **** (1961, Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Larry Gates, Robert Emhardt, Paul Dubov, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 3656

‘The Facts… The Faces… The Film That Cracks America’s Organized Crime Syndicate Wide Open!’ Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s tough, hard-hitting 1961 neo-noir revenge crime drama thriller Underworld USA is lifted way out of the rut by […]

May, 04

Hamlet ***** (1948, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Holloway, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 3647

Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]

May, 02

Friend Request ** (2016, Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette) – Movie Review

Alycia Debnam Carey stars as attractive, confident and popular college student Laura, who naturally has many, many friends, both on and off line. She’s our heroine and she is also a rather nice person and […]

Apr, 20

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