Derek Winnert

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Unnatural Causes *** (1993, Roy Marsden, Simon Chandler, Kenneth Colley, Mel Martin, Bill Nighy, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 10,445

The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]

Oct, 21

Brainstorm *** (1965, Jeffrey Hunter, Dana Andrews, Anne Francis, Viveca Lindfors) – Classic Movie Review 10,351

Lust and the eternal triangle are played out rather well in William Conrad’s 1965 neo-noir dark thriller film Brainstorm, starring Jeffrey Hunter. Producer-director William Conrad’s 1965 neo-noir dark thriller film Brainstorm stars Jeffrey Hunter as a handsome […]

Sep, 26

The Bay Boy *** (1984, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat) – Classic Movie Review 10,287

Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]

Sep, 10

Portrait in Black **½ (1960, Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, Anna May Wong, Lloyd Nolan, Ray Walston, Virginia Grey ) – Classic Movie Review 10,254

Director Michael Gordon’s 1960 neo noir mystery crime thriller Portrait in Black is based on a play by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, and stars Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, […]

Sep, 01

The Malpas Mystery ** (1960, Maureen Swanson, Allan Cuthbertson, Geoffrey Keen, Ronald Howard, Sandra Dorne, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 10,226

Maureen Swanson stars in the 1960 crime film The Malpas Mystery, a lively and involving, if fairly routine, British B-movie Edgar Wallace thriller adaptation. Director Sidney Hayers’s 1960 second feature crime film The Malpas Mystery […]

Aug, 26

Double Negative [Deadly Companion] ** (1980, Michael Sarrazin, Susan Clark, Anthony Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,179

Director George Bloomfield’s 1980 Canadian mystery film Double Negative [Deadly Companion] has its points of interest (mainly the story and cast) but ends up as a rather tepid and overexposed adaptation of Ross Macdonald’s thriller […]

Aug, 14

Blanche Fury *** (1948, Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 10,150

Director Marc Allégret’s 1948 British film Blanche Fury is a handsome-looking, rather Gothic Victorian-style romantic melodrama about a governess Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) who, at the bidding of her rich uncle Simon (Walter Fitzgerald), marries […]

Aug, 08

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