Derek Winnert

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Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

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

The Phantom Speaks *** (1945, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 5101

Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]

Mar, 04

Calling Dr Death *** (1943, Lon Chaney Jr, Patricia Morison, J Carrol Naish, Ramsay Ames) – Classic Movie Review 3751

Director Reginald Le Borg’s 1943 thriller is the first Inner Sanctum series entry starring Lon Chaney Jr as Dr Mark Steele who believes that he could have murdered his unfaithful, conniving wife Maria (Ramsay Ames) […]

May, 24

And Then There Were None ***** (1945, Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3,264

French film director René Clair turns Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel and play into the richly stylish 1945 American black comedy mystery thriller film And Then There Were None. It is a great piece of […]

Jan, 13

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer **** (2006, Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2939

Director Tom Tykwer’s lovingly crafted 2006 period serial killer movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer isn’t to be sniffed at. Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer’s screenplay makes an involving, often thrilling job of […]

Oct, 02

The Hills Have Eyes **** (1977, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Michael Berryman) – Classic Movie Review 2814

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1977 horror movie is a great, in-your-face, visceral shocker which established his international reputation. In the credible horror story, a tribe of deformed, inter-bred crazed cannibals pick off people on holiday, whose car […]

Aug, 15

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