Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Film noir"

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The Leopard Man **** (1943, Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 3761

Director Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1943 film noir horror thriller for producer Val Lewton boasts a marvellously eerie atmosphere thanks to Tourneur’s skills and Robert De Grasse’s beautiful and evocative camerawork. And the music by Roy […]

May, 28

The Hunted ***½ (1948, Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 3674

Director Jack Bernhard’s 1948 thriller is an expert, tense and moody film noir, in which Preston Foster stars as a cop probing a gem theft who finds his main squeeze (Belita) may be the criminal […]

May, 08

Desperate ***½ (1947, Steve Brodie, Audrey Long, Raymond Burr, Jason Robards Sr, Douglas Fowley, William Challee) – Classic Movie Review 3,543

Director Anthony Mann’s 1947 neat and nifty suspense film noir Desperate stars Steve Brodie as trucker Steve Randall, who is taken hostage in a fur robbery and told to confess to a cop’s death or the […]

Apr, 08

Hollow Triumph [The Scar] *** (1948, Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 3317

Director Steve Sekely’s well-done, sterling 1948 film noir Hollow Triumph [The Scar] stars Paul Henreid as medical school dropout John Muller, a thief and murderer desperately trying to escape the vindictive big-time gambler he stole […]

Feb, 03

The Amazing Mr X [The Spiritualist] *** (1948, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 3316

Director Bernard Vorhaus’s intriguing and effectively handled 1948 B-movie film noir mystery thriller stars Lynn Bari as a widow called Christine Faber, who is trying to put her life back together two years after the accidental death […]

Feb, 03

Deception **** (1946, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 2,708

Bette Davis re-teams with her Now, Voyager co-stars Claude Rains and Paul Henreid for Warner Bros’ vintage 1946 film noir romantic drama Deception. For director Irving Rapper’s vintage 1946 film noir romantic drama Deception, Warner […]

Jul, 19

The Blue Gardenia **** (1953, Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 2,600

Fritz Lang said: ‘I had to shoot The Blue Gardenia in 20 days. Maybe that’s what made me so venomous.’ The moody 1953 film noir crime thriller stars Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte and […]

Jun, 14

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