Derek Winnert

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The Devil’s in Love ** (1933, Victor Jory, Loretta Young, Vivienne Osborne, Robert Barrat, C Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin, J Carrol Naish, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 10,454

‘He ran away from life… from the past… from love! Until he met a girl who gave him courage to face fate.’ German-born director William Dieterle [Wilhelm Dieterle]’s 1933 The Devil’s in Love stars Victor […]

Oct, 23

The Seventh Cross *** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Felix Bressart, George Macready, George Zucco, Steven Geray) – Classic Movie Review 9994

  Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1944 The Seventh Cross in an engrossing, intelligent, studio-bound escape adventure, with the excellent actors fleshing out intriguing characters. Spencer Tracy is at his best as George Heisler, one of seven […]

Jul, 03

The Brute [El Bruto] **** (1953, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler) – Classic Movie Review 9958

The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]

Jun, 25

Where’s Jack? *** (1969, Tommy Steele, Stanley Baker, Alan Badel, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9951

Director James Clavell’s 1969 film Where’s Jack? provides a serious role for Tommy Steele (fresh from success in Half a Sixpence and Finian’s Rainbow) as Jack Sheppard, the celebrated notorious 18th-century British highwayman wanted by the […]

Jun, 23

À Nous la Liberté ***** (1931, Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France) – Classic Movie Review 9851

Raymond Cordy and Henri Marchand star in writer-director René Clair’s dazzlingly witty 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté [Freedom for Us], in which Louis (Raymond Cordy) escapes from jail and works his way up […]

Jun, 01

Albert RN [Break to Freedom] **** (1953, Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9159

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 Albert RN [Break to Freedom] is a deservedly famous British Fifties World War Two prisoner-of-war camp movie, with notable stiff-upper-lipped acting, in which the true Brits, fed up with escapes that […]

Dec, 15

Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939

Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]

Sep, 25

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