Derek Winnert

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Larceny **** (1948, John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 10,966

Tory (Shelley Winters): ‘Stop twisting my arm! People will think we’re married!’ Director George Sherman’s exceptionally enjoyable vintage 1948 film noir crime thriller Larceny stars John Payne as a devil-may-care confidence trickster called Rick Maxon, […]

Feb, 26

The Young in Heart **** (1938, Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Minnie Dupree) – Classic Movie Review 7476

Director Richard Wallace’s 1938 The Young in Heart is a lovely, warm and very funny, typically Thirties-style screwball comedy about a family of likeable rogues, in this case loveable rogues. It is written by Paul […]

Aug, 20

Nightmare Alley **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6128

Director Edmund Goulding’s haunting 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nightmare Alley is based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who becomes a carnival barker […]

Oct, 23

House of Games **** (1987, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4004

American Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet makes a clever directorial début with his teasing 1987 thriller House of Games. It stars his then wife Lindsay Crouse as control-freak psychiatrist Margaret Ford, who makes the mistake […]

Jul, 12

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