Derek Winnert

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The Big Shot *** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6,902

The entertaining 1942 film noir crime thriller The Big Shot is a now forgotten assembly-line movie for Humphrey Bogart, who stars as crime boss Duke Berne, put on trial after a mistake on an identity […]

Apr, 08

Knock on Any Door *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 6765

Nicholas Ray’s intelligent 1949 courtroom melodrama Knock on Any Door stars Humphrey Bogart as a lawyer defending a Chicago slum kid (John Derek) from a cop killer murder rap by trying to appeal to the […]

Mar, 04

Slattery’s Hurricane *** (1949, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 6692

Richard Widmark scores strongly as Lieutenant Will Slattery USNR, the shifty, selfish and seedy-seeming anti-hero of director André De Toth’s 1949 Florida drug-smuggling adventure movie Slattery’s Hurricane. Studio 20th Century Fox had wanted Tyrone Power, but he’d […]

Feb, 15

Under Milk Wood *** (1972, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, Siân Phillips, Victor Spinetti) – Classic Movie Review 6548

Dylan Thomas’s delightful classic radio poem play a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called Llareggub gets the Hollywood star treatment. And writer-director Andrew Sinclair’s 1972 Welsh village comedy comes as […]

Jan, 11

Payment on Demand *** (1951, Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 6468

‘He strayed and he paid… She saw to that!’ Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1951 divorce drama stars Bette Davis, who is on her best form as a woman who is rich, over-ambitious and facing a divorce […]

Dec, 24

Lola Montès **** (1955, Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook) – Classic Movie Review 6190

Director Max Ophüls creates one of his most poignant works in this 1955 film fantasia on the life of the celebrated Irish dancer, courtesan and femme fatale Lola Montès (1821–1861). As Lola, Martine Carol provides […]

Nov, 05

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth *** (1992, Terry Farrell, Doug Bradley, Kevin Bernhardt) – Classic Movie Review 6115

Hellraiser deviser Clive Barker’s British college mate Doug Bradley is back as Pinhead, now turned into an all-purpose a Freddy/ Jason-style bogeyman. He is awakened by a greedy New York disco owner and battles with […]

Oct, 20

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