Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "true crime"

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Al Capone **** (1959, Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory, Joe De Santiis, Murvyn Vye, Nehemiah Persoff, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 10,627

Director Richard Wilson’s 1959 crime thriller biopic Al Capone showcases one of Rod Steiger’s quintessential performances, just stopping short of parody, as Chicago’s best known citizen, the Prohibition-era mobster Alphonse Capone (1899-1947), which lights up […]

Dec, 04

The Onion Field **** (1979, John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales) – Classic Movie Review 9436

Director Harold Becker turns Joseph Wambaugh’s factually based novel about a kidnapped cop Karl Hettinger (John Savage), who witnesses his partner Ian Campbell (Ted Danson)’s murder, into a distinguished inquiry into the American judicial system. […]

Feb, 27

Lepke *** (1975, Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan) – Classic Movie Review 8556

Director Menahem Golan’s 1974 true crime Israeli-American film Lepke is a typically Seventies violent gangster movie in the Thirties Warner Bros-style, with an inspired performance by Tony Curtis, cast against type, giving an interesting account […]

Jun, 05

Mad Dog Coll ** (1961, John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8531

John Davis Chandler stars as notorious Thirties gangland killer Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (born on 20 July 1908), an Irish-American mob hitman, in director Burt Balaban’s fictionalised 1961 biographical crime drama Mad Dog Coll. He […]

Jun, 01

Ned Kelly ** (1970, Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus, Frank Thring, Ken Goodlet, Bruce Barry) – Classic Movie Review 8351

British director Tony Richardson took a miscast Mick Jagger Down Under for his 1970 true story adventure film Ned Kelly, a thoughtful if misguided action biopic of the legendary 19th-century Aussie outback outlaw Ned Kelly […]

Apr, 10

Madeleine *** (1950, Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, Ivor Barnard, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 7085

Madeleine (1949) is a lesser but still intriguing effort from ace all-time great British director David Lean, who casts his then wife Ann Todd in the real-life story of Madeleine Smith who was accused of […]

May, 22

The Brink’s Job *** (1978, Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Gena Rowlands, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 6,508

Director William Friedkin’s often exciting 1978 true crime heist movie The Brink’s Job is based on the real-life American ‘crime of the century’ in 1950 when nearly $3 million was snatched by amateurs in an […]

Jan, 01

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