Derek Winnert

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The Age of Innocence ** (1934, Irene Dunne, John Boles, Lionel Atwill, Laura Hope Crews, Helen Westley, Julie Haydon) – Classic Movie Review 12,527

RKO’s 1934 film The Age of Innocence is an intriguing but rather unpersuasive Victorian romantic melodrama taken from Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer prize-winning classic 1920 novel, remade by Martin Scorsese in 1993. Director Philip Moeller’s 1934 […]

Jun, 02

The Green Scarf ** (1954, Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Richard O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 12,516

The 1954 British mystery thriller film The Green Scarf stars Michael Redgrave as a bearded French lawyer who defends a deaf, dumb and blind novelist (Kieron Moore) accused of killing a man in a seemingly […]

May, 26

Underworld ***** (1927, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 12,099

Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]

May, 06

Please Murder Me! ** (1956, Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran, John Dehner, Lamont Johnson, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 11,440

Angela Lansbury stars as an unfaithful murderess, defended in court by loving lawyer Raymond Burr. Director Peter Godfrey’s 1956 film noir thriller Please Murder Me! stars Angela Lansbury and Raymond Burr. Angela Lansbury was in a […]

Aug, 02

I Thank a Fool * (1962, Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,415

Susan Hayward and Peter Finch have a thankless task to re-animate I Thank a Fool (1962). Director Robert Stevens’s 1962 British Metrocolor crime drama I Thank a Fool stars Peter Finch, Susan Hayward, Diane Cilento, Cyril […]

Jul, 22

Mantrap *** (1953, Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore, Kay Kendall, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 11,136

Terence Fisher’s suspenseful 1953 British crime film Mantrap [Man in Hiding] stars Paul Henreid as a lawyer detective who, helped by his secretary (Kay Kendall), tries to show that a man on the run (Kieron […]

Apr, 25

Ricochet ** (1963, Maxine Audley, Richard Leech, Alex Scott, Dudley Foster, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,839

Director John Llewellyn Moxey’s 1963 black and white crime film Ricochet stars Richard Leech as British small-time local lawyer Alan Phipps, who hatches a complex revenge plot to secretly blackmail his rich, trampy, cheating wife […]

Jan, 27

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