Derek Winnert

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Port of New York *** (1949, Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K T Stevens, Yul Brynner) – Classic Movie Review 5266

Director Laslo Benedek’s 1949 film noir thriller stars a pre-bald Yul Brynner, who makes an auspicious first appearance as the big bad guy Paul Vicola in this story of dope dealing, deceit and death. Scott […]

Apr, 07

‘C’-Man *** (1949, Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Harry Landers) – Classic Movie Review 5265

Dean Jagger stars as US Customs Department Agent Cliff Holden, who is in hot pursuit of the thieving gem-runners who have murdered his buddy co-worker, in producer-director Joseph Lerner’s breezy, tough-edged, quick-moving realist 1949 B-movie […]

Apr, 07

Edge of Eternity *** (1959, Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Edgar Buchanan, Mickey Shaughnessy, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5258

Director Don Siegel’s 1959 adventure stars Cornel Wilde as Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin, who is hunting for the killer of the boss of a gold mine whose ingots went missing, part of a sequence […]

Apr, 05

Count the Hours *** (1953, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran) – Classic Movie Review 5250

Macdonald Carey stars as a lawyer who battles to release migrant worker ranch hand George Braden (John Craven) from Death Row in director Don Siegel’s neat little 1953 suspense thriller support feature, running just 74 […]

Apr, 04

Nightfall **** (1956, Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, James Gregory, Jocelyn Brando, Frank Albertson, Rudy Bond, George Cisar) – Classic Movie Review 5,216

Jacques Tourneur’s tense and suspenseful 1956 cult classic film noir thriller Nightfall stars screen tough guy Aldo Ray, who triumphs in casting against type as Jim Vanning, a guiltless victim finding gangsters’ bank heist loot. […]

Mar, 29

New York Confidential **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Maxwell, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5212

Broderick Crawford and Anne Bancroft star in the tremendous hardboiled 1955 gangster movie New York Confidential. Co-writer/ director Russell Rouse’s tremendous hardboiled 1955 gangster movie New York Confidential is both revealing and exciting. It tells […]

Mar, 28

Jack the Ripper *** (1988, Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Susan George, Jane Seymour, Lewis Collins) – Classic Movie Review 5190

For writer-director David Wickes’s excellent 1988 two-part mini-series Jack the Ripper, Michael Caine returns to TV as Chief Inspector Fred Abberline, the boozy Scotland Yard man who investigates the notorious 1888 East End serial killer […]

Mar, 22

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