Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Film noir"

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I Walk Alone **** (1948, Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2,158

‘Once I trusted a dame… now I Walk Alone!’ Burt  Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott star with Wendell Corey and Kirk Douglas in director Byron Haskin’s authentic 1947 film noir I Walk Alone. ‘Once I trusted a […]

Feb, 07

Too Late for Tears **** (1949, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2159

‘She Got What She Wanted… With Lies… With Kisses… With Murder!’ Lizabeth Scott triumphs in her best movie role as Jane Palmer, a ruthless femme fatale who stumbles across a case filled with $60,000 worth […]

Feb, 07

Kiss of Death ** (1995, David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 2067

David Caruso stars as ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin who battles Nicolas Cage’s psychotic mobster Little Junior Brown in a basic, nastily violent crime thriller flick that’s no more than a cheesy B-movie. It’s flashy and atmospheric, but […]

Jan, 10

Against All Odds **** (1984, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Rachel Ward) – Classic Movie Review 2045

Director Taylor Hackford delivers a satisfyingly twisty, fascinating 1984 neo noir remake of the classic 1947 Robert Mitchum-Jane Greer-Kirk Douglas film noir thriller Out of the Past. This time, in Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges stars […]

Jan, 04

Brute Force **** (1947, Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Yvonne De Carlo) – Classic Movie Review 1580

Director Jules Dassin’s 1947 film noir prison-break thriller Brute Force is admirably tough and exciting, quite brutal for its day. It has exactly the right star in Burt Lancaster as Westgate Penitentiary inmate Joe Collins, […]

Aug, 23

Detour ***** (1945, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald) – Classic Movie Review 1547

‘Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or on me for no good reason at all.’ Edgar G Ulmer’s all-time great, flashback-driven 1945 film noir thriller Detour is a deservedly celebrated […]

Aug, 15

Cold in July *** (2014, Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson) – Movie Review

Michael C. Hall stars as the frightened everyman Richard Dane, who kills an intruder in his home one night in 1989 in Texas. Dane foolishly attend the man’s funeral, and the victim’s murderous ex-con father (Sam […]

Jun, 26

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