Derek Winnert

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House of Bamboo ***½ (1955, Robert Stack, Robert Ryan, Sessue Hayakawa, Brad Dexter, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Biff Elliot) – Classic Movie Review 3465

Cult writer-director Samuel Fuller’s good-looking 1955 film noir crime thriller about an American protection racket in Tokyo is commendably gritty, tough and edgy. The always reliable actor Robert Stack stars as the undercover agent, US […]

Mar, 11

The Bridge on the River Kwai ***** (1957, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa) – Classic Movie Review 1396

Director David Lean’s 1957 dramatisation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 French novel about the building of a Burma railway bridge under Japanese coercion by British prisoners-of-war is an enduring, magnificent achievement. It won seven Academy Awards, […]

Jul, 05

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