Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Film noir"

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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

The Hitch-Hiker **** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2563

Director Ida Lupino’s tense and compelling 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker has two fishing-trip travellers Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) leaving their wives and picking up the sinister hitch-hiker Emmett Myers (William Talman), a […]

Jun, 06

Force of Evil ***** (1948, John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 2556

Co-writer/director Abraham Polonsky’s dynamic, first-rate 1948 film noir crime thriller stars John Garfield, who gives a superlative performance as Joe Morse, a gangster’s attorney who lets his greed overcome his sense of morality. Morse is […]

Jun, 06

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