Derek Winnert

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The Cry Baby Killer ** (1958, Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Carolyn Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 7849

Director Justus Addiss’s 1958 The Cry Baby Killer stars Jack Nicholson, who makes his promising début as a juvenile delinquent at the age of 21, in this Roger Corman-produced quick flick, advertised as ‘YESTERDAY a […]

Nov, 28

Dangerous Years ** (1947, Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines, Ann E Todd, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7602

Director Arthur Pierson’s modest 1947 youth-oriented B-movie crime drama Dangerous Years stars Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines and Ann E Todd, but, though far from negligible, it is really only remembered because Marilyn Monroe makes her first on screen […]

Sep, 20

Blackboard Jungle *** (1955, Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 5669

It is hard now to know from the movie exactly why, but writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1955 film exposé of teen trouble in the classrooms of New York, based on Evan Hunter’s novel, shocked the authorities […]

Jun, 26

The Silent Storm ** (2014, Damian Lewis, Andrea Riseborough, Ross Anderson) – Movie Review

Writer-director Corinna McFarlane’s romantic drama is her directorial debut and stars Andrea Riseborough as Aislin, who finds herself living and working on a remote Scottish island both with her abusive and crazy fire-and-brimstone minister husband Balor (Damian Lewis) […]

May, 18

Rebel Without a Cause ***** (1955, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo) – Classic Movie Review 658

James Dean gives a mesmerisingly exciting and touching performance as alienated youth Jim Stark, in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, based on an original story by the film’s director Nicholas Ray. With his […]

Jan, 09

Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295

Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]

Oct, 18

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