Derek Winnert

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Le Meurtrier [Enough Rope] **** (1963, Gert Fröbe, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein) – Classic Movie Review 12,242

Gert Fröbe and Maurice Ronet star in the stylish 1963 French thriller film Le Meurtrier [Enough Rope], based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1954 novel The Blunderer. Its director Claude Autant-Lara said: ‘If a film does not […]

Jul, 21

Nightmare ** (1942, Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell, Eustace Wyatt, David Clyde, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 12,165

Brian Donlevy plays an ex-gambler who helps beautiful widow Diana Barrymore and becomes involved with a murder, spies and saboteurs, in the 1942 thriller Nightmare. Director Tim Whelan’s 1942 American Universal Pictures black and white […]

Jun, 08

The Murder Man *** (1935, Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, James Stewart, Harvey Stephens, William Collier Sr, Bobby Watson, William Demarest, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 12,119

Director Tim Whelan’s 1935 American crime-drama film The Murder Man is Spencer Tracy’s first film for MGM, a humble, quickly made thriller with Tracy as a tough crime reporter called Steve Grey, who kills financier Harvey […]

May, 14

Backfire! ** (1962, Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall, Oliver Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 12,106

Director Paul Almond’s 1962 British black and white Merton Park second feature thriller film Backfire! stars Alfred Burke, Zena Marshall and Oliver Johnston. It is a cheap and humble but reasonably satisfactory Edgar Wallace mystery […]

May, 07

Main Street after Dark ** (1945, Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout, Audrey Totter, Dan Duryea, Hume Cronyn, Dorothy Morris) – Classic Movie Review 12,055

The pleasingly played 1945 noir crime drama film Main Street after Dark stars Edward Arnold as Lieutenant Lorrigan, who takes a dim view of a criminal family of pickpockets (Selena Royle, Tom Trout, Audrey Totter). […]

Apr, 11

Lady on a Train *** (1945, Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 12,000

Director Charles David’s 1945 American whodunit film noir crime thriller Lady on a Train is based on an original story by Leslie Charteris, and stars Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, and Edward Everett Horton. […]

Mar, 11

Scandal Sheet * (1939, Otto Kruger, Ona Munson, Edward Norris) – Classic Movie Review 11,914

Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 Columbia Pictures black and white crime drama film Scandal Sheet is a rough-hewn, melodramatic newspaper yarn with tough scandal sheet tabloid editor Jim Stevenson (Otto Kruger) ready to kill to stop […]

Feb, 07

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