Derek Winnert

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The Outfit **** (1973, Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 5278

Writer-director John Flynn’s sweaty, nerve-jangling 1973 neo noir thriller combines a tremendous cast and a terrific basis in a stupendous source novel by Donald E Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker […]

Apr, 10

Act of Violence **** (1949, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 5277

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1949 film noir thriller provides suspense and atmosphere galore as the embittered, vengeful former wartime prisoner-of-war Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunts his former commanding officer, POW traitor Frank Enley (Van Heflin), who […]

Apr, 10

The Phantom of the Opera ** (1983, Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Diana Quick) – Classic Movie Review 5102

Maximilian Schell makes a fair job of The Phantom in director Robert Markowitz’s sumptuous, fast moving and well-cast 1983 TV movie remake, attractively filmed in Hungary. This tolerable but not special film makes no special […]

Mar, 05

How to Make a Monster ** (1958, Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, John Ashley) – Classic Movie Review 4998

‘Werewolf, meet Frankenstein. Shake hands and come out snarling.’ Director Herbert L Strock’s amusing, odd and fairly inventive 1958 horror movie stars Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway as Tony Mantell (Teenage Frankenstein) and Gary […]

Feb, 05

Something To Talk About *** (1995, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 4986

Director Lasse Hallstrom’s exceptional, appealing 1995 domestic comedy drama about the affairs of a rich family in the American South really is something to talk about tomorrow with your friends or in the workplace. Robert Duvall […]

Feb, 03

Teenage Doll * (1957, June Kenney, Fay Spain, John Brinkley) – Classic Movie Review 4956

‘This story is about a sickness, a spreading epidemic that threatens to destroy our very way of life. We are not doctors. We can offer no cure. But we know that a cure must be […]

Jan, 28

Live by Night ** (2016, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review

Ben Affleck and Chris Messina star as Joe Coughlin and Dion Bartolo, a couple of Boston gangsters who, to get themselves out of trouble, do a deal with Italian mobster Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) and set […]

Jan, 13

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