Derek Winnert

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Never Let Go **½ (1960, Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith, Carol White, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 7788

‘A New Peter Sellers – Tough and Ruthless!’ as a London villain in John Guillermin’s 1960 crime drama Never Let Go. Director John Guillermin’s 1960 British black and white crime drama thriller film Never Let […]

Nov, 15

The Valachi Papers *** (1972, Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 7776

Charles Bronson plays gangster and informer Joseph Valachi, who spills the beans on his real-life Mafia tale, in director Terence Young’s 1972 thriller The Valachi Papers [Joe Valachi, I Segreti di Cosa Nostra], a very […]

Nov, 11

A Bullet for Pretty Boy ** (1970, Fabian Forte, Jocelyn Lane, Astrid Warner) – Classic Movie Review 7718

One-time pop star Fabian Forte enjoys himself as Thirties real-life nasty mobster Charles ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, creating quite a psychopathic ogre. Producer-director Larry Buchanan’s 1970 B-gangster movie A Bullet for Pretty Boy, made in the wake […]

Oct, 28

Deadline – USA **** (1952, Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Martin Gabel, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 7610

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s tremendous 1952 film noir crime drama Deadline – USA [aka Deadline] stars Humphrey Bogart as tough, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, who sends his reporters to expose crime and corruption. However, the owner Margaret […]

Sep, 21

Flaxy Martin *** (1949, Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 7,551

The solid 1948 Warner Bros film noir gangster movie Flaxy Martin stars Virginia Mayo as the gold-digging showgirl Flaxy Martin, and Zachary Scott as the honest young lawyer who falls for and protects her.  Director […]

Sep, 08

The Racketeer [Love’s Conquest ] *** (1929, Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew) – Classic Movie Review 7380

Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]

Jul, 31

It Was an Accident (2000, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Thandie Newton, Nicola Stapleton, Neil Dudgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7313

It was a comedy? No, I didn’t think so! Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Metin Hüseyin‘s 2000 It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett, who comes out of jail after four years and returns to Walthamstow, London, to find […]

Jul, 20

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