Derek Winnert

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Highway 301 **** (1950, Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, Robert Webber, Wally Cassell) – Classic Movie Review 12,115

‘THEY SLASHED A CRIME-SCAR ACROSS THE MAP OF AMERICA!’ Writer-director Andrew L Stone’s tremendous 1950 Warner Bros gangster film noir crime drama Highway 301 stars Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby André, Edmon Ryan, Richard Egan, […]

May, 11

Shock *** (1946, Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore) – Classic Movie Review 7257

Director Alfred L Werker’s enjoyable, creepy 1946 film noir thriller Shock sees Vincent Price grabbing his new top-lined billing as the psychopathic psychiatrist Dr Richard Cross who has recently acquired Mrs Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) […]

Jul, 06

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

Armored Car Robbery ***** (1950, Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 3803

The spectacular 1950 film noir heist thriller Armored Car Robbery is fast, short, tense and punchy. Charles McGraw is just right as the hard-nosed LA cop pursuing murderous criminal Dave Purvis (William Talman). Director Richard […]

Jun, 04

Hard Eight **** (1996, Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 316

Suspense, wit, atmosphere, sudden death and fine character study are the name of the game in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s superb, stylish, hard-nosed 1996 thriller Hard Eight. Anderson’s feature debut is graced with the performance […]

Oct, 23

Arbitrage **** (2012, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling) – Movie Review

My goodness, haven’t we got all grown up all of a sudden? Though it’s a bit of a shock to see Richard Gere white haired, wrinkly and playing 60 (he’s actually 63 in fact), this […]

Oct, 22

Blood Simple ***** (1984, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M Emmet Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 289

The Coen Brothers make their film debut in 1984 with the astonishing, thrillingly realised neo-noir thriller Blood Simple. Frances McDormand also makes her film debut and M Emmet Walsh stars as the double-crossing private detective. […]

Oct, 13

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