Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "politics"

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Parole, Inc ** (1948, Michael O’Shea, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers) – Classic Movie Review 12,159

‘Sensational! Shocking! The inside story of the Nation’s Worst Crime Plot!’ Parole officers fight gangsters infiltrating the US parole system in the 1948 film noir crime thriller Parole, Inc. Director Alfred Zeisler’s low-budget 1948 black […]

Jun, 06

Love & Money ** (1981, Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 11,677

Writer-producer-director James Toback’s 1981 thriller Love & Money stars Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski and Armand Assante. That great eccentric Klaus Kinski stars as a pop-eyed tycoon, Frederic Stockheinz, who draws LA bank employee […]

Oct, 25

A Face in the Crowd **** (1957, Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 10,896

Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal give perhaps the best performances of their careers in producer-director Elia Kazan’s memorable protest movie about the manipulation of the public by the media, the 1957 black and white drama […]

Feb, 09

Scandal **** (1989, John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey) – Classic Movie Review 10,821

The 1989 drama Scandal is a major British film about the 1963 Profumo sex, spies and politics scandal, with superb performances by John Hurt as bon-viveur osteopath Dr Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as exotic […]

Jan, 22

Meteor ** (1979, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda, Richard Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 9750

Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]

May, 11

The Little World of Don Camillo [Don Camillo] **** (1952, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi, Sylvie) – Classic Movie Review 9353

Director Julien Duvivier’s delightful, light-hearted 1952 French-Italian comedy The Little World of Don Camillo [Don Camillo] [Le petit monde de Don Camillo] stars the always-excellent Fernandel on his most exuberant and engaging form as Don […]

Feb, 07

The Front Runner *** (2018, Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J K Simmons, Kaitlyn Dever, Sara Paxton, Alfred Molina) – Movie Review

American Senator Gary Hart was an idiot. At the crucial climax to his 1988 presidential campaign in which he is The Front Runner, the newspapers (The Miami Herald) catch him (after a tip-off) in an extra-marital love […]

Oct, 14

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