Derek Winnert

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House by the River *** (1950, Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 2806

Fritz Lang directs this tense, moody, intriguing and atmospheric 1950 film noir thriller based on the A P Herbert source novel’s story of death, betrayal and obsession. Louis Hayward stars as deranged, unsuccessful author Stephen […]

Aug, 12

La Bête Humaine [The Human Beast] ***** (1938, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux) – Classic Movie Review 2,788

Packed with passion and atmosphere, writer-director Jean Renoir’s 1938 modernised French film version of the antique 1890 Emile Zola novel La Bête Humaine is both one of the great train movies and one of the great […]

Aug, 08

Cub [Welp] ***½ (2014, Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Jonas Govaerts‘s Cub is a really good horror movie in the classic style. It starts nice and tense and creepy, then it turns plenty gory and exciting, and it is topped off with a surprising ending. […]

Jul, 30

The Murders in the Rue Morgue *** (1986, George C Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Ian McShane, Neil Dickson, Val Kilmer) – Classic Movie Review 2683

The fifth film of Edgar Allan Poe’s gory horror story is once again set in 19th century Paris. It is tautly and imaginatively handled by director Jeannot Szwarc in 1986. And it is greatly enlivened […]

Jul, 09

Murders in the Rue Morgue *** (1971, Jason Robards Jnr, Herbert Lom, Lilli Palmer, Adolfo Celi, Michael Dunn, Christine Kaufmann, Maria Perschy) – Classic Movie Review 2682

American International Pictures assembles a grand, first-class international cast headed by Jason Robards Jnr, Herbert Lom, Lilli Palmer, Adolfo Celi, Michael Dunn, Christine Kaufmann and Maria Perschy for director Gordon Hessler’s bloody, well-made 1971 horror […]

Jul, 09

The Invisible Man Returns *** (1940, Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 2676

Director Joe May’s 1940 first Invisible Man sequel stars Vincent Price as Geoffrey Radcliffe, who takes a drug to turn himself invisible with the help of his chemist friend Dr Frank Griffin (John Sutton) in […]

Jul, 06

The Tartars [I Tartari] *** (1961, Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 2668

Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]

Jul, 06

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