Derek Winnert

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Saboteur ****½ (1942, Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 279

Alfred Hitchcock’s thrilling 1942 World War Two pursuit thriller Saboteur is a fast, fine and stylish exercise in excitement and high anxiety. Robert Cummings stars as innocent LA aircraft munitions factory worker Barry Kane, who […]

Oct, 08

Road to Perdition ***** (2002, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Ciarân Hinds, Stanley Tucci, Dylan Baker, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 234

A haunting, unmissable gangster movie with a dazzling surface, director Sam Mendes’s 2002 follow-up to his American Beauty has got class written all over every frame of it. It is superbly crafted with beautiful performances, particularly […]

Sep, 09

The 39 Steps ***** (1935, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Wylie Watson, John Laurie, Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Haye, Miles Malleson) – Classic Movie Review 119

Alfred Hitchcock’s beguiling 1935 spy thriller film The 39 Steps rattles along in a luxury-class ride. Robert Donat is wonderfully suave and assured as Richard Hannay running for his life from a nest of spies […]

Aug, 02

Frenzy **** (1972, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Bernard Cribbins, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Vivien Merchant, Billie Whitelaw, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 92

Written with great relish and expertise by Anthony Shaffer (author of the play Sleuth and The Wicker Man screenplay) and directed in England in a creative frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock, the 1972 thriller Frenzy is […]

Jul, 26

Hummingbird [Redemption] *** (2013, Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure) – Movie Review

The writer of Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things, Steven Knight, makes his director debut in this typical, would-be smart London low-life thriller starring Jason Statham – so you know exactly what to expect. Statham […]

Jul, 02

North by Northwest ***** (1959, Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Jessie Royce Landis, Martin Landau, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 4

Was any thriller busier, faster or more polished? Buckle up for North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock’s great 1959 chase-thriller ride, following the desperate knife-edge fate of charismatic but smug and selfish middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising […]

Jun, 25

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