Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "police station"

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The Treasure of San Teresa [Hot Money Girl] ** (1959, Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams, Marius Goring, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 11,007

Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1959 British-German co-production The Treasure of San Teresa [Hot Money Girl] stars Eddie Constantine as former World War Two OSS agent Larry Brennan, who goes to Czechoslovakia after the war and gets […]

Mar, 10

The Choirboys * (1977, Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr, Perry King) – Classic Movie Review 10,398

Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 The Choirboys is a raw and repulsive black-comic crime thriller about the delinquent members of an American police department in Los Angeles, the Wilshire Divison of the Los Angeles Police Department. […]

Oct, 09

Fort Apache the Bronx **** (1981, Paul Newman, Edward Asner, Ken Wahl, Danny Aiello, Rachel Ticotin, Pam Grier) – Classic Movie Review 7213

Director Daniel Petrie’s 1981 Fort Apache the Bronx is an urgent Eighties police report from deep in New York’s South Bronx area with its derelict tenements, hookers, pimps, wailing police cars, rain-swept streets and murderous assaults […]

Jun, 23

The Long Arm [The Third Key] **** (1956, Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 5,151

Ealing Studios’ engrossing 1956 British crime thriller film The Long Arm stars Jack Hawkins in one of his quintessential roles as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of safe-breaking jobs. Director Charles Frend’s 1956 […]

Mar, 13

Assault on Precinct 13 ***** (1976, Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer) – Classic Movie Review 4,354

The nailbiting 1976 non-stop action thriller film Assault on Precinct 13 about a gang of delinquents besieging a strangely empty Los Angeles police station deservedly helped to catapult its writer-director John Carpenter into the big […]

Sep, 12

Assault on Precinct 13 ***½ (2005, Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Ja Rule, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 4353

Ethan Hawke again proves he can play a tough cop as Sgt Jake Roenick, the useful hero of the brilliantly tense 2005 action thriller film remake Assault on Precinct 13. After Training Day (2001), Ethan […]

Sep, 12

Garde à Vue [The Inquisitor] **** (1981, Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 3703

Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel […]

May, 12

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