Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "espionage"

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Morituri [The Saboteur, Code Name Morituri] ** (1965, Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Janet Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 7,276

The double Oscar-nominated 1965 action war thriller film Morituri stars Marlon Brando, reprising his tormented German character as a World War Two spy called Robert Crain helping the British grab a German freighter helmed by […]

Jul, 10

The Helicopter Spies ** (1968, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Carol Lynley, Julie London, Lola Albright, John Carradine, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 6,924

Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star as U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, who are whisked across the world in their daring quest to gain control of a deadly weapon being used in a […]

Apr, 15

Frantic **** (1988, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alexandra Stewart, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6663

Director Roman Polanski’s mischievous 1988 thriller is a hugely entertaining Hitchcock spoof starring Harrison Ford as the earnest, sympathetic middle-aged hero, Dr Richard Walker, the typical innocent abroad. Dr Walker is an American in Paris […]

Feb, 08

Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It [Mail Train] **** (1940, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman, Charles Oliver, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 6570

The third and last cheap and cheerful comedy thriller in the series is enlivened by the star performances of Gordon Harker and Alastair Sim working with an ideal script by comedy thriller experts Frank Launder, […]

Jan, 16

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

The Quiller Memorandum **** (1966, George Segal, Max von Sydow, Alec Guinness, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann) – Classic Movie Review 5129

Director Michael Anderson’s excellent, engrossing and exciting 1966 British espionage thriller The Quiller Memorandum stars George Segal as American spy Quiller, who is sent to West Berlin by the British Secret Service to investigate a […]

Mar, 10

Scorpio **** (1972, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt, J D Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 5,061

  The 1972 spy film Scorpio is a smoothly twisting Cold War spy game tale, starring Burt Lancaster as CIA agent Gerald Cross, who is suspected of double-dealing and is being hounded by the freelance […]

Feb, 25

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