Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

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I Died a Thousand Times *** (1955, Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr, Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 6443

An iconic Fifties cast adds huge allure to the intriguing 1955 cult crime thriller I Died a Thousand Times, the second remake of High Sierra, a film noir shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Director Stuart […]

Dec, 20

The Outrage ** (1964, Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G Robinson, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 6355

Though by no means an outrage, director Martin Ritt’s 1964 Western is a misguided attempt to relocate Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Japanese classic Rashomon to the American Southwest in the 1870s, with four people telling their widely […]

Dec, 04

The Girl from 10th Avenue *** (1935, Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Katherine Alexander, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 6301

Director Alfred E Green’s smart and amusing 1935 drama features excellent work from its star Bette Davis and nimble, fast-paced handling from the director, which help to lift this entertaining soap opera in which Davis […]

Nov, 24

Storm Over the Nile * (1955, Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Ronald Lewis, Ian Carmichael, Mary Ure) – Classic Movie Review 6265

Directors Zoltan Korda and Terence Young’s completely unwanted CinemaScope remake of the great 1939 Zoltan Korda adventure classic The Four Feathers, based on the novel by A E W Mason, does not even have the […]

Nov, 17

Murder on the Orient Express ** (2017, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Johnny Depp, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]

Nov, 03

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ** (2009, Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn, Michael Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 6101

Writer-director Peter Hyams’s 2009 crime thriller is a reasonable, if unremarkable, remake of Fritz Lang’s cultish vintage 1956 film noir Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. This time Jesse Metcalfe (John Tucker Must Die) stars as frustrated TV reporter […]

Oct, 17

The Fiend Who Walked the West ** (1958, Hugh O’Brian, Dolores Michaels, Robert Evans, Edward Andrews, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Ron Ely) – Classic Movie Review 6086

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1958 film The Fiend Who Walked the West is a full-blooded Western reworking of ideas from the 1947 Kiss of Death, with Robert Evans going enjoyably over the top as a psychotic murderer […]

Oct, 12

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