Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "suspicion"

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Stranger on Horseback *** (1955, Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 10,616

Director Jacques Tourneur’s very fine 1955 American Anscocolor Western film Stranger on Horseback stars Joel McCrea, Miroslava, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire and John Carradine. The well-honed screenplay by Herb Meadow and Don Martin is based […]

Dec, 02

Mystery of Edwin Drood *** (1935, Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, E E Clive, Valerie Hobson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,409

Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal studios black and white film Mystery of Edwin Drood is a pleasing, atmospheric, satisfying Victorian England period chiller, successfully based on Charles Dickens’s uncompleted 1870 novel, with Claude Rains enjoying a […]

Oct, 13

Bluebeard ** (1972, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, Sybil Danning) – Classic Movie Review 10,321

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1972 serial killer crime thriller Bluebeard stars a tired-looking Richard Burton, who has a monotonous go at playing Bluebeard, Baron Kurt Von Sepper, the Austrian aristocrat who likes to murder his mistresses […]

Sep, 18

Portrait in Black **½ (1960, Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, Anna May Wong, Lloyd Nolan, Ray Walston, Virginia Grey ) – Classic Movie Review 10,254

Director Michael Gordon’s 1960 neo noir mystery crime thriller Portrait in Black is based on a play by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, and stars Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Sandra Dee, John Saxon, Richard Basehart, […]

Sep, 01

Stamboul Quest *** (1934, Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 8,374

Director Sam Wood’s 1934 MGM black and white romantic spy thriller movie Stamboul Quest stars Myrna Loy as Annemarie, Germany’s top secret agent in World War One. She cannot resist the charms of US student […]

Apr, 17

Run for the Sun *** (1956, Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck, Juan García) – Classic Movie Review 3521

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s 1956 adventure thriller Run for the Sun is the third version of Richard Connell’s prize-winning short story The Most Dangerous Game. Though it is one of the most anthologised stories of all time […]

Dec, 20

Breakheart Pass ** (1975, Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 6780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie vehicle for Charles Bronson is Western murder mystery hokum based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, in which people are being mysteriously bumped off on a train with medical supplies […]

Mar, 09

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