Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "prison"

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Just Mercy **** (2019, Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson) – Movie Review

Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx, form a strong partnership as Harvard-educated pro bono civil rights defence attorney Bryan Stevenson and Walter McMillian, a wrongly condemned Alabama death row prisoner he works tirelessly for years […]

Feb, 20

Paid *** (1930, Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass) – Classic Movie Review 9400

Producer-director Sam Wood’s 1930 Paid [Within the Law] stars Joan Crawford as Mary Turner, who is wrongly jailed for three years as a youngster and comes out seeking justice against the men who put her […]

Feb, 18

For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] *** (1966, Giuliano Gemma, Dan Vadis, José Calvo, Ángel del Pozo, Sophie Daumier, Jacques Sernas) – Classic Movie Review 9347

Giuliano Gemma (billed as Montgomery Wood) stars in director Giorgio Ferroni’s superior 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film For a Few Extra Dollars [Per pochi dollari ancora] as former Confederate raider Gary Diamond, now a guide who […]

Feb, 04

Freedom Is Paradise [S.E.R. – Svoboda eto rai] **** (1989, Volodya Kozyrev, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Aleksandr Bureyev, Svetlana Gaytan) – Classic Movie Review 9162

Volodya Kozyrev stars in Freedom Is Paradise as Sasha, a 13-year-old Russian boy who longs for freedom from his state-run special school for difficult children, where is is taken after his mother died. One day […]

Dec, 16

The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] * (1977, Gene Hackman, Richard Widmark, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 9141

Director Stanley Kramer’s 1977 assassination thriller The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars Richard Widmark as mystery man Tagge, who approaches wrongly convicted murderer Roy Tucker (Gene Hackman), who is serving time in San Quentin […]

Dec, 09

An Innocent Man ** (1989, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins) – Classic Movie Review 9092

Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]

Nov, 23

De Sade * (1969, Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9033

Director Cy Endfield’s 1969 biographical historical drama De Sade [Das Ausschweissende Leben des Marquis De Sade] is a flop American co-production bid by American International Pictures with Germany to make a popular European art movie, […]

Oct, 30

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