Derek Winnert

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Mrs Pollifax-Spy * (1971, Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold Gould, Albert Paulsen, John Beck, Dana Elcar) – Classic Movie Review 11,572

‘Before she joined the CIA, Mrs Pollifax thought Red China was a set of dishes.’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s 1971 spy comedy Mrs Pollifax-Spy stars Rosalind Russell as the title character, and finds the always […]

Sep, 13

I Was a Spy *** (1933, Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 10,829

‘TO ANSWER THE LURE OF HER LIPS WAS FATAL!’ Director Victor Saville’s 1933 I Was a Spy stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, a real-life World War One nurse who in German-occupied Belgium in 1914 […]

Jan, 25

Blood on the Sun ** (1945, James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 10,605

In 1942 James Cagney left Warner Bros, the studio where he had been so successful, to form his own company with his brother William. So director Frank Lloyd’s 1945 black and white thriller Blood on […]

Nov, 30

Fathom *** (1967, Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Richard Briers, Clive Revill, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 6215

Probably you never expected to see a movie with Raquel Welch and Richard Briers paired up together, but this is it in director Leslie H Martinson’s engagingly daft 1967 British caper. There’s a place for […]

Nov, 09

Carve Her Name with Pride **** (1958, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner) – Classic Movie Review 5083

Stalwart British director Lewis Gilbert’s 1958 wartime drama grippingly and sincerely explores the affecting real-life story of World War Two war heroine Violette Szabo, the British widow of a French officer who joined the Special […]

Mar, 01

Highly Dangerous [Time Running Out] *** (1950, Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4979

Margaret Lockwood stars in the J Arthur Rank Organisation’s 1950 British spy film Highly Dangerous as entomologist Frances Gray, sent by British Intelligence on a dangerous espionage mission to an Eastern European Iron Curtain country to […]

Feb, 02

Mata Hari, Agent H21 *** (1964, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Rich, Frank Villard, Albert Rémy, Georges Riquier, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3562

Co-writer/director Jean-Louis Richard’s 1964 French New Wave romantic thriller Mata Hari, Agent H21 stars his ex-wife Jeanne Moreau, who was born to play doomed lovers and tragic spies. So, although admittedly not Dutch or a […]

Apr, 13

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