Derek Winnert

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Rome Express ***** (1932, Conrad Veidt, Gordon Harker, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Vosper, Hugh Williams, Muriel Aked, Donald Calthrop, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 4023

The silky Conrad Veidt effortlessly steals the 1932 British thriller film Rome Express as Zurta, a mysterious professional criminal who organised an art theft.  Director Walter Forde’s tremendous 1932 movie Rome Express is a classic […]

Jul, 14

Conflict ** (1945, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet) – Classic Movie Review 3881

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1945 film noir suspense thriller Conflict has its moments but it is one of Humphrey Bogart’s least good and least well-known pictures from his best period. Engineer Richard Mason (Bogart) sends his […]

Jun, 17

And Soon the Darkness *** (1970, Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès) – Classic Movie Review 3350

This tense and involving 1970 women in peril British chiller stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Elès. TV’s Avengers writer Brian Clemens and Dr Who writer Terry Nation pump some style into this creepy, […]

Feb, 12

Crack-Up *** (1946, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3,318

RKO’s entertaining 1946 Hitchcock-style American film noir espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Pat O’Brien in rather unlikely casting as George Steele, a small museum art expert and curator probing what turns out to be a […]

Feb, 03

Nightmare **** (1964, David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden) – Classic Movie Review 3306

Director Freddie Francis’s excellent 1964 psychological suspense thriller Nightmare stars the 25-year-old Jennie Linden as troubled young heiress Janet, a student at a private school. She is being brought up in the absence of her parents […]

Jan, 31

Paranoiac ***½ (1963, Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham, Alexander Davion, Liliane Brousse) – Classic Movie Review 3305

Hammer Films’ 1963 thriller Paranoiac is loosely based on Josephine Tey’s brilliant novel Brat Farrar, in which a charming young man long believed dead returns to his family estate to claim his inheritance. Director Freddie […]

Jan, 31

The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588

François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]

Jun, 12

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