Derek Winnert

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Operation Amsterdam ** (1959, Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 9145

Co-writer/ director Michael McCarthy’s 1958 Operation Amsterdam is a decent though low-tension real-life World War Two action drama about British-Netherlands trio Jan Smit (Peter Finch), Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox) and Major Dillon (Tony Britton) linking […]

Dec, 11

The Asphalt Jungle ***** (1950, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Brad Dexter, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 1351

Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]

Jun, 22

High Sierra ***** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Jerome Cowan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 1,348

Raoul Walsh’s 1941 thriller film High Sierra is a terrific action/ adventure film noir featuring Humphrey Bogart in yet another one of his iconic roles as notorious career criminal Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle. It made […]

Jun, 21

Muppets Most Wanted ** (2014, Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey) – Movie Review

Disney’s 2014 Muppets Most Wanted movie is the properly daft tale of a Muppets world tour, a European jewel heist, and an evil Kermit the Frog lookalike and his dastardly sidekick. After their successful revival […]

Mar, 27

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