Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "rapist"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "rapist".

The Story of Temple Drake *** (1933, Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue) – Classic Movie Review 11,927

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1933 controversial American pre-Code drama film The Story of Temple Drake stars Miriam Hopkins as the titular character. The Catholic League of Decency set off a successful censorship campaign on Hollywood after Paramount […]

Feb, 12

Night Games [Jeux de nuit] (1980, Cindy Pickett, Joanna Cassidy, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 11,799

Director Roger Vadim’s 1980 erotic thriller film Night Games [Jeux de nuit] stars Cindy Pickett, Joanna Cassidy and Barry Primus. It narrates the sexual history of a traumatised Hollywood wife, Valerie St John (Cindy Pickett), who […]

Dec, 18

The Beat Generation ** (1959, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Ray Danton, Fay Spain) – Classic Movie Review 10,108

Director Charles F Haas’s 1959 black and white crime B-movie The Beat Generation [This Rebel Age] stars Steve Cochran as obsessed tough police detective Dave Culloran, who tracks down the vile, crazy serial rapist Stan […]

Jul, 30

Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] *** (1970, Charles Bronson, Marlène Jobert, Annie Cordy, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 9,314

René Clément’s chilling 1970 French mystery thriller Rider on the Rain [Le Passager de la Pluie] is the film that turned Charles Bronson into a star in Europe. Director René Clément’s 1970 French-Italian mystery thriller […]

Jan, 29

Return to Sender *** (2015, Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte, Illeana Douglas, Rumer Willis, Scout Taylor-Compton) – Movie Review

Rosamund Pike is back in Gone Girl mode in director Fouad Mikati’s intriguing thriller, as a nurse American small town who is brutally raped by a boy (Shiloh Fernandez) who turns up at her home just […]

May, 21

Malice *** (1993, Bill Pullman, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 1509

Director Harold Becker’s 1993 thriller is a compulsively preposterous, bizarre and artificial suspense mystery movie, in which Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman star as New England college dean Andy and his lovely younger wife Tracy, Andy’s former pupil who […]

Aug, 02

Johnny Belinda **** (1948, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 1353

Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]

Jun, 24

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.