Derek Winnert

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Drop Dead Darling [Arrivederci, Baby!] * (1966, Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding, Anna Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 6229

Tony Curtis plays Nick, literally, a ladykiller who weds ’em then kills ’em to his heart’s content to inherit from his rich widows until he meets his match in his latest wife, young Italian widowed […]

Nov, 11

Murder on the Orient Express ** (2017, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]

Nov, 03

I Mobster *** (1959, Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, John Brinkley, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 6147

Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]

Oct, 27

Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] *** (1958, Boris Karloff, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Kent, Vera Day, Anthony Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 6146

Director Robert Day’s intriguing 1958 British horror thriller Grip of the Strangler [The Haunted Strangler] stars Boris Karloff as James Rankin, a mystery writer who investigates the case of a serial killer murderer hanged two […]

Oct, 27

One Body Too Many ** (1944, Jack Haley, Bela Lugosi, Jean Parker, Blanche Yurka, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley, Bernard Nedell) – Classic Movie Review 6138

‘A shudder a second! A laugh a minute! YOU’LL DIE SCREAMING WITH LAUGHTER! Bela Lugosi is a welcome presence as the butler Merkil in the 1944 comedy-mystery film One Body Too Many. ‘A shudder a […]

Oct, 24

Fast Company *** (1938, Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Louis Calhern, Claire Dodd, George Zucco, Shepperd Strudwick, Nat Pendleton, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 6,134

Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star as married rare-book dealers who try to solve a murder case, in MGM’s entertaining 1938 comedy mystery thriller film Fast Company. Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice star as married […]

Oct, 24

Dead Men Walk *** (1943, George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Dwight Frye, Nedrick Young) – Classic Movie Review 6132

Ah, a dead man returns for vengeance, excellent! George Zucco is on good form and is great fun in two roles as the vampire Elwyn Clayton, who comes back to life to kill his doctor […]

Oct, 23

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