Derek Winnert

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White Nights *** (1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 10,750

Director Taylor Hackford’s 1985 movie White Nights is a daft but entertaining chase-dance drama, a peculiar hybrid of musical and thriller, giving good chances to players difficult to cast. Mikhail Baryshnikov charismatically plays a Russian […]

Jan, 04

Man on a String *** (1960, Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst) – Classic Movie Review 9804

Director André De Toth’s 1960 Man on a String [Confessions of a Counterspy] stars Ernest Borgnine in a Hollywood-ised biography of Russian double agent/ counterspy Boris Morros.  Borgnine plays him as Boris Mitrov, a character loosely […]

May, 22

Silk Stockings **** (1957, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Peter Lorre, Janis Paige) – Classic Movie Review 8565

Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1957 Silk Stockings is a smart and attractive musical remake of Greta Garbo’s 1939 comedy Ninotchka, this time with Fred Astaire at his effortless best in his last big MGM musical, and […]

Jun, 07

The Jigsaw Man * (1983, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8494

Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the stars of the 1972 Sleuth, reunited for director Terence Young’s disastrously disappointing 1984 British double agent spy thriller The Jigsaw Man, which was afflicted by money problems and halted […]

May, 24

Funeral in Berlin **** (1966, Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi) – Classic Movie Review 2419

Michael Caine returns for his second spy thriller in the Sixties Harry Palmer film trilogy, with Bond director Guy Hamilton at the helm, in 1966’s Funeral in Berlin.  Michael Caine returns for his second spy […]

Apr, 22

Salt *** (2010, Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor) – Classic Movie Review 980

Angelina Jolie does her action heroine thing again as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after a defecting Soviet spy accuses her of being a Russian agent about to kill the Russian […]

Mar, 24

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