Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "femme fatale"

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Sleep, My Love *** (1948, Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Hazel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 6306

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1948 film noir mystery thriller tells a rather familiar suspense story about a conniving Richard Courtland (Don Ameche) trying to drive his rich wife Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) insane so that he can […]

Nov, 24

Mystery in Mexico *** (1948, William Lundigan, Ricardo Cortez, Jacqueline White, Tony Barrett) – Classic Movie Review 5293

Director Robert Wise’s 1948 mystery crime thriller is a very tolerable, short (66 minutes) little RKO Radio Pictures B-movie about an insurance claims snoop who is asked by his company to investigate the mystery of the disappearance […]

Apr, 15

Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] ** (1996, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Dreyfuss, Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Christopher Jones) – Classic Movie Review 4851

After just six movies as a star, and quitting in 1970 after Ryan’s Daughter, Christopher Jones made one final screen appearance in the 1996 American ensemble cast crime comedy Mad Dog Time [Trigger Happy] written and directed […]

Jan, 06

To Trap a Spy *** (1964, Robert Vaughn, Luciana Paluzzi, Patricia Crowley, William Marshall, Fritz Weaver, David McCallum, Will Kuluva) – Classic Movie Review 4741

The 1964 first The Man from U.N.C.L.E. feature film To Trap a Spy is a spinoff from the 70-minute TV pilot expanded for cinemas. Robert Vaughn stars as secret agent Napoleon Solo and David McCallum has […]

Dec, 03

Framed ***½ (1947, Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Karen Morley) – Classic Movie Review 4492

Director Richard Wallace’s intriguing and effective 1947 low-budget B-movie film noir crime thriller stars a sexy Janis Carter as sultry femme fatale Paula Craig, who schemes with married man Steve Price (Barry Sullivan) to commit the perfect robbery […]

Oct, 19

Decoy **** (1946, Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt, Marjorie Woodworth, Bert Roach) – Classic Movie Review 3230

British actress Jean Gillie makes her quite spectacular American screen debut in 1946 in the now re-evaluated cult film noir Decoy, directed by her then new American film director husband Jack Bernhard. It also stars Edward […]

Jan, 04

The Devil Is a Woman ***** (1935, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 3122

Director Josef von Sternberg’s exotically beautiful 1935 romantic drama stars Marlene Dietrich in her last movie partnership with her real-life Svengali-figure. It is based on Pierre Louys’s story of obsessive love, La Femme et Le […]

Dec, 02

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