Derek Winnert

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Cloak without Dagger [Operation Conspiracy] * (1956, Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 12,646

The British 1956 noir espionage thriller film Cloak without Dagger [Operation Conspiracy] is a feeble, clichéd B-movie spy drama with romance and bantering in the concoction. Philip Friend and Mary Mackenzie star.  Director Joseph Sterling’s […]

Sep, 17

The Salzburg Connection ** (1972, Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 12,531

The likeable enough 1972 thriller film The Salzburg Connection stars Barry Newman as an American attorney vacationing in scenic Salzburg, Austria, where he gets involved with the world’s secret agents who are after a box […]

Jun, 05

Nightmare ** (1942, Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell, Eustace Wyatt, David Clyde, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 12,165

Brian Donlevy plays an ex-gambler who helps beautiful widow Diana Barrymore and becomes involved with a murder, spies and saboteurs, in the 1942 thriller Nightmare. Director Tim Whelan’s 1942 American Universal Pictures black and white […]

Jun, 08

Undercover Blues (1993, Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller, Tom Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 12,070

Director Herbert Ross’s flop 1993 action comedy film Undercover Blues stars Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid as a wise-cracking couple of spies, along with Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller and Tom Arnold. Neatly paired […]

Apr, 18

Birds Do It * (1966, Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O’Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8337

Director Andrew Marton’s 1966 film Birds Do It is a silly, mostly mirthless comedy with Soupy Sales starring as Melvin Byrd, a nuclear plant’s caretaker ionised in error so he can fly across Florida and […]

Apr, 06

Les Espions [The Spies] **** (1957, Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, Martita Hunt, Sam Jaffe, Véra Clouzot, O E Hasse, Paul Carpenter, Gérard Séty) – Classic Movie Review 2359

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s intriguing and unusual 1957 spy thriller, with his screenplay based on the book by Egon Hostovsky, focuses on a rundown, faltering psychiatric clinic. There the psychiatrist owner, desperate for money to keep […]

Apr, 05

Mr and Mrs Smith **** (2005, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody) – Classic Movie Review 711

This largely unrelated film with the same title as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 screwball comedy was a 2005 blockbuster, in which a husband and wife who are both secret agents, are hired by competing agencies to kill each other. […]

Jan, 18

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