Derek Winnert

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Sleeping Car to Trieste *** (1948, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Alan Wheatley, Paul Dupuis, David Tomlinson, Rona Anderson, Derrick de Marney, Grégoire Aslan, Bonar Colleano, Zena Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 4,022

Jean Kent stars in the quirky and amusing 1948 British thriller film Sleeping Car to Trieste about spies, art thieves and blackmailers aboard a trans-Europe express train. Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1948 British thriller Sleeping […]

Jul, 14

Background to Danger *** (1943, George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 3879

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1943 wartime spy thriller stars George Raft and Brenda Marshall, but the even better news is that it co-stars the great screen team of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Raft stars as […]

Jun, 17

From Paris with Love * (2010, John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak) – Classic Movie Review 3838

From Paris with Love is a disgracefully bad, utterly risible (but not in a good way) action comedy with a totally mismatched star team in John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, neither of whom should […]

Jun, 11

The Flying Saucer * (1950, Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Virginia Hewitt) – Classic Movie Review 3759

‘Streaking out of the unknown comes a strange new terror! ‘ In 1950, only a year after the world’s first Flying Saucer was supposedly sighted in the Washington hills, writer-producer-director Mikel Conrad came up with […]

May, 28

Our Kind of Traitor ***½ (2016, Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Northam) – Movie Review

Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a weary long-term British couple, Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins, who go on a rekindling romance-type holiday in Marrakech and meet dodgy Russian Dima (Stellan Skarsgård). Dima asks Perry to party with him and challenges him to […]

May, 13

Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] ***** (1962, Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov) – Classic Movie Review 3567

Co-writer/director Andrei Tarkovsky’s scintillating and stunning 1962 first feature Ivan’s Childhood [Ivanovo Detstvo] is about the feisty and vengeful 12-year-old Russian boy Ivan Bondarev, played by Kolya Burlyayev [Nikolai Burlyayev], who works as a spy […]

Apr, 14

Mata Hari, Agent H21 *** (1964, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Rich, Frank Villard, Albert Rémy, Georges Riquier, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 3562

Co-writer/director Jean-Louis Richard’s 1964 French New Wave romantic thriller Mata Hari, Agent H21 stars his ex-wife Jeanne Moreau, who was born to play doomed lovers and tragic spies. So, although admittedly not Dutch or a […]

Apr, 13

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