Derek Winnert

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The Informer **** (1929, Lars Hanson, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord) – Classic Movie Review 12,412

The 1929 British part-talkie drama film The Informer is based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, and stars notable Swedish film and stage actor Lars Hanson and tragic Hungarian silent star Lya De Putti. The 1929 […]

Jan, 27

A Prayer for the Dying ** (1987, Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis, Liam Neeson, Alison Doody, Christopher Fulford, Karl Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 12,017

The 1987 British film A Prayer for the Dying is a tense and interesting but muddled thriller, recut by the producers to the fury of star Mickey Rourke and director Mike Hodges. Both Rourke, as […]

Mar, 18

Shake Hands with the Devil ** (1959, James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 11,513

Producer-director Michael Anderson’s 1959 drama Shake Hands with the Devil stars James Cagney as Sean Lenihan, a Dublin College of Surgeons tutor and Irish Republican Army boss who leads a young Irish-American overseas student Kerry […]

Aug, 24

I See a Dark Stranger [The Adventuress] **** (1946, Deborah Kerr Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 10,067

Director Frank Launder’s extremely enjoyable 1946 wartime British espionage thriller I See a Dark Stranger [The Adventuress] stars Deborah Kerr, who lights up the screen as Bridie Quilty, a young Irish woman whose hatred of […]

Jul, 21

Cal **** (1984, Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann) – Classic Movie Review 9878

Director Pat O’Connor’s 1984 thriller Cal stars John Lynch as Cal, the 19-year-old unemployed Catholic IRA man in Ulster, who falls for Catholic woman Marcella (Helen Mirren), widow of the Protestant policeman he has reluctantly […]

Jun, 08

In the Name of the Father **** (1993, Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Mark Sheppard) – Classic Movie Review 5543

Director Jim Sheridan’s 1993 film was Oscar nominated as Best Picture and rivetingly tells the story of the Guildford Four, young Irish people released after 12 years’ wrongful imprisonment after the IRA terrorist bombings of […]

Jun, 03

The Jackal *** (1997, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 4893

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s capable, quite exciting 1997 action thriller is a more than satisfactory remake of The Day of the Jackal (1973), an admittedly much better film that didn’t need a remake. Richard Gere and Bruce […]

Jan, 15

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