Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "spying"

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The Woman in the Window ** (2021, Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger, Anthony Mackie, Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

The Woman in the Window (2021) stars the likeable and sympathetic Amy Adams, who lands a big fat star role as clinically depressed, pill-popping, wine-drinking, agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox, living alone in an eerie […]

May, 21

The Little Drummer Girl ** (1984, Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 9278

Director George Roy Hill’s disappointing 1984 thriller The Little Drummer Girl stars Diane Keaton, whose performance as a naive pro-Palestinian American actress called Charlie involved in spying in the Arab-Israel conflict just about saves a […]

Jan, 19

Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809

Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]

Nov, 19

The MacKintosh Man *** (1973, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6,037

Paul Newman stars as an undercover government agent hired to trap a spying British Member of Parliament (James Mason), in director John Huston’s quick-paced 1973 Cold War spy thriller film The MacKintosh Man. Paul Newman […]

Sep, 23

The Quiller Memorandum **** (1966, George Segal, Max von Sydow, Alec Guinness, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann) – Classic Movie Review 5129

Director Michael Anderson’s excellent, engrossing and exciting 1966 British espionage thriller The Quiller Memorandum stars George Segal as American spy Quiller, who is sent to West Berlin by the British Secret Service to investigate a […]

Mar, 10

Permission to Kill [The Executioner] ** (1975, Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Timothy Dalton, Bekim Fehmiu, Frederic Forrest, Nicole Calfan) – Classic Movie Review 4597

Director Cyril Frankel’s dreary, dour and preposterous 1975 spy thriller was a setback to its star Dirk Bogarde, then at the peak of his serious movie career after Victim (1961), The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965), Accident (1967), […]

Nov, 06

For Your Eyes Only **** (1981, Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1024

The 1981 spy film For Your Eyes Only is James Bond movie number 12, with Roger Moore happily back, a spunky heroine in Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, and Chaim Topol and Julian Glover oddly […]

Mar, 30

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