Derek Winnert

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Blind Spot *** (1947, Chester Morris, Constance Dowling, Steven Geray, Sid Tomack) – Classic Movie Review 11,209

Director Robert Gordon’s Columbia Pictures 1947 black and white double-feature film noir crime thriller Blind Spot stars Chester Morris as drunken thriller writer Jeffrey Andrews, who has to try to clear his name with the […]

May, 15

Compromising Positions *** (1985, Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann) – Classic Movie Review 10,977

Director Frank Perry’s 1985 Compromising Positions is written by Susan Isaacs and based on her novel, and has a special cast in Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt and Joe […]

Mar, 02

White Sands *** (1992, Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L Jackson, M Emmet Walsh, Mimi Rogers, James Rebhorn, Beth Grant) – Classic Movie Review 10,749

Director Roger Donaldson’s 1992 action crime thriller White Sands stars Willem Dafoe as Ray Dolezal, a US southwestern small-town deputy sheriff who investigates the appearance of a mysterious corpse he finds lying next to a […]

Jan, 04

Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to Kill] *** (1988, Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 10,628

FBI agent Warren Stantin (Sidney Poitier) and mountain guide and expert tracker Jonathan Knox (Tom Berenger) team up to track an evil killer in Roger Spottiswoode’s tough, well-made 1988 action thriller Deadly Pursuit [Shoot to […]

Dec, 04

A Mind to Murder ** (1995, Roy Marsden, Frank Finlay, Jerome Flynn, Robert Pugh, George Costigan, Robert East, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 10,449

Roy Marsden’s portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia Television’s P D James detective series spans 15 years from Death of an Expert Witness (1983) to A Certain Justice (1998). The series began as adaptations in […]

Oct, 22

Unnatural Causes *** (1993, Roy Marsden, Simon Chandler, Kenneth Colley, Mel Martin, Bill Nighy, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 10,445

The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]

Oct, 21

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman *** (1982, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard) – Classic Movie Review 10,444

Director Christopher Petit’s 1982 crime mystery thriller An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is an intriguing and largely successful if too tricksy film version of P D James’s twisting 1972 novel featuring her female detective […]

Oct, 21

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