Derek Winnert

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels **** (1988, Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris) – Classic Movie Review 5214

Director Frank Oz’s delicious 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels stars a perfect team in Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly. Caine plays a suave Englishman named Lawrence Jamieson who preys on wealthy widows by posing […]

Mar, 29

The Grissom Gang **** (1971, Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Irene Dailey, Robert Lansing, Connie Stevens, Ralph Waite, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 4.786

Kim Darby stars in The Grissom Gang as a 1930s heiress who is kidnapped and comes under the spell of one of her captors (Scott Wilson). Robert Aldrich’s 1971 film of James Hadley Chase’s 1939 […]

Dec, 12

Night Has a Thousand Eyes **** (1948, Edward G Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest, Richard Webb, Jerome Courtland) – Classic Movie Review 4270

Director John Farrow’s taut and moody 1948 little suspense thriller stars Edward G Robinson as a vaudeville theatre psychic turn, phony stage mentalist John Triton, who acquires powers of precognition and predicts that a troubled […]

Aug, 30

Endless Night ** (1972, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson, Lois Maxwell, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 4033

Writer-director Sidney Gilliat re-pairs the hit young star-player team from The Family Way (1966) and Twisted Nerve (1968), Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett, for another creepy thriller, a heavily reworked 1972 film version of a well-regarded Agatha Christie […]

Jul, 16

She-Wolf of London [The Curse of the Allenbys] * (1946, Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden) – Classic Movie Review 3748

Director Jean Yarbrough’s stale 1946 horror thriller stars June Lockhart as young heiress Phyllis Allenby, whose aunt Martha Winthrop (Sara Haden) convinces her that she has come under the influence of a family curse and is […]

May, 23

Florence Foster Jenkins **** (2016, Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson) – Movie Review

Stephen Frears’s delectable and enchanting biopic tells the story of middle-aged New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman who would never let a little thing like having a terrible singing voice get in the way of her […]

May, 05

Devil Doll *** (1964, Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Stepanek, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3,120

Co-producer/director Lindsay Shonteff’s low-budget gothic 1964 British horror movie Devil Doll stars Bryant Halliday as the evil hypnotist/ ventriloquist The Great Vorelli. Vorelli puts heiress Marianne Horn (Yvonne Romain), the girlfriend of an American reporter […]

Dec, 02

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