Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Film noir"

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Angel Face ****½ (1953, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall, Barbara O’Neil, Leon Ames, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 6,397

Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]

Dec, 12

The Unsuspected **** (1947, Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield) – Classic Movie Review 6,341

Claude Rains stars in Warner Bros’ enjoyably far-fetched 1947  film noir mystery movie The Unsuspected as a suave radio host turned murderer who investigates his own perfect murder on his crime mystery show. Joan Caulfield […]

Dec, 01

Nightmare Alley **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6128

Director Edmund Goulding’s haunting 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nightmare Alley is based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who becomes a carnival barker […]

Oct, 23

Yield to the Night [Blonde Sinner] **** (1956, Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 5746

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1956 British anti-capital punishment drama Yield to the Night stars the hitherto cheesecake star Diana Dors, who copes extremely creditably, indeed admirably, with a big serious dramatic role as Mary Price […]

Jul, 12

Berlin Express ***½ (1948, Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5695

Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan lead Jacques Tourneur’s gripping and entertaining 1948 postwar film noir espionage thriller Berlin Express, with a tense train setting, about an Allied group battling to save a German peace-worker diplomat […]

Jul, 02

Black Angel **** (1946, Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 5518

Director Roy William Neill’s complex, stylish, satisfying top-drawer 1946 film noir mystery thriller Black Angel is securely based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich (aka William Irish). June Vincent stars as nightclub singer Catherine Bennett who […]

May, 29

Lured [Personal Column] **** (1947, Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 5,516

Douglas Sirk’s 1947 film noir serial killer thriller Lured really is a bit of a little gem. It is quite creepy – Lucille Ball as a dancer in danger and lots of old guys, among […]

May, 29

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