Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "suspense"

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Espionage Agent ** (1939, Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 8020

A pleasant cast assembles for director Lloyd Bacon’s 1939 Espionage Agent, a once timely but now just low-voltage-seeming black and white paranoia espionage suspense thriller about Nazi spy rings taking over in the American heartlands […]

Jan, 16

The First Purge (2018, Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, Mugga, Patch Darragh, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

The fourth in the franchise started by The Purge back in 2013 is a nasty, unpleasant and revolting exploiter peddling strong disturbing violence and a wrong-headed near-future alternate reality, where the rich folks in power in […]

Jul, 07

Madame X ** (1937, Gladys George, John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen) – Classic Movie Review 6816

Director Sam Wood’s 1937 MGM drama is the fifth (of seven) cinema film versions of this classic fallen woman, road-to-ruin weepie tale about Jacqueline Fleuriot, a rich woman whose life is wrecked by a brief […]

Mar, 18

Lola ** (1986, Ángela Molina, Patrick Bauchau, Féodor Atkine, Assumpta Serna, Carme Sansa, Pepa López) – Classic Movie Review 6193

Angela Molina gives a powerful performance as the titular Lola, a factory worker who suffers at the hands of her sadistic lover Mario (Féodor Atkine), in co-writer/ director Bigas Luna’s dour, dubbed Spanish suspense thriller. […]

Nov, 05

The Long Dark Hall ** (1951, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Raymond Huntley, Denis O’Dea, Anthony Bushell) – Classic Movie Review 6140

Rex Harrison stars as Arthur Groome, the unfaithful Richmond, London, husband, charged with murdering his showgirl plaything (Patricia Wayne), in directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck’s ordinary, unconvincing 1951 British mystery and suspense crime thriller […]

Oct, 24

Baby Face Nelson *** (1957, Mickey Rooney, Cedric Hardwicke, Carolyn Jones, Chris Dark, Ted De Corsia, John Hoyt, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5906

‘Don’t see it unless your nerves are bullet proof!’ Director Don Siegel’s sizzling 1957 gangster thriller and crime biopic provides a great part for Mickey Rooney in a career-changing role. Unlikely though Rooney is as […]

Aug, 13

Rock all Night *** (1957, Dick Miller, Russell Johnson, Jonathan Haze, Abby Dalton, The Platters, Robin Morse) – Classic Movie Review 4444

Director Roger Corman’s interesting, tuneful and suspenseful 1957 B-movie cult classic is a rock ‘n’ roll thriller film tailored for the drive-in theatres of the day. Russell Johnson and Jonathan Haze star as killers Joey and […]

Oct, 02

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