Top cast:Charles Ogle,George Lessey,Robert Brower
Director:Marielle Heller
Genre:Thriller
Region:South Africa
Year:1999
Storyline:As with many of Preston Sturges' other classic comedies, it lacked Academy Award nominations.Plot SynopsisOpening Titles Sequence:The fast-paced, 'comedy-of-errors' film opens with a frenzied credit montage of confusing, mystifying vignettes without dialogue and interspersed with freeze frames - the strange prologue is only explained in the final moments of the film.[The piece is Chopin'sNocturne No.6 in G Minor, Op.15, No.3.] In a ranquil scene without dialogue, as the camera pans over each of heir faces, the realization dawns on the pensive men that they have reached a natural conclusion in their lives.Refusing to give up entirely, Bilbo remained behind and reconsidered the directions on Thorin's map, repeating: "The last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole...You've been there, right?...You sat on the edge of the bed, didn't ya? You took off your shoes, put your finger between your toes and picked your feet.] In the local iron foundry at the end of the night shift, fiery, bright flames, smoke and sparks emerge from the blast furnaces - the powerful, hellish fire a symbol of productiveness and destructiveness both in peace and in war-time.