Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "psychologist"

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Blind Alley **** (1939, Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 11,813

Director Charles Vidor’s 1939 black and white Columbia Pictures film Blind Alley is a trail-blazing psychoanalysis film-noir thriller, about murderously tough hood Hal Wilson (Chester Morris) busting loose from jail and hiding out with a […]

Dec, 28

Color of Night * (1994, Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 7854

Director Richard Rush’s 1994 Color of Night is a shameful, atrocious, way-over-the-top farrago of an erotic mystery thriller, with Bruce Willis embarrassing himself as a troubled psychiatrist hounded by death threats and sexy young Rose (played […]

Nov, 30

Freud **** (1962, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 7186

A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]

Jun, 17

The Magnet **** (1950, Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson, Thora Hird, Wylie Watson) – Classic Movie Review 7081

Director Charles Frend’s 1950 British film is an unpretentious, amusing and well-observed Ealing Studios comedy about a naughty 11-year-old boy called Johnny Brent (William Fox, now James Fox), who lands in a lot of bother […]

May, 22

Old Boyfriends ** (1979, Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine, John Houseman, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 6474

Talia Shire enjoyed working with John Belushi on Old Boyfriends (1979) and told him he was a great actor when not using drugs, and wanted to work with him again. Belushi didn’t enjoy his role, […]

Dec, 27

Promise Her Anything ** (1966, Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Stander, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6228

Director Arthur Hiller’s airy-fairy British made 1966 comedy teams Warren Beatty with Leslie Caron, but has the wit to throw in a large number of stylish character actors to make it a bit tastier and […]

Nov, 11

Mine Own Executioner **** (1947, Burgess Meredith, Kieron Moore, Dulcie Gray, Barbara White, Christine Norden) – Classic Movie Review 5854

‘There’s nothing worse than a man who makes you take off your self-respect and keep your clothes on.’ Anthony Kimmins’s 1947 British film noir thriller of Nigel Balchin’s distinguished novel Mine Own Executioner is deservedly […]

Aug, 04

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