Top cast:Blanche Sweet,Edwin August,W. Chrystie Miller
Director:Robert Miller&Kwabena Oppong
Genre:Mystery
Region:Taiwan
Year:2002
Storyline:[Note: Film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen paid homage to Sturges and his admirable film by naming their own 21st century filmO Brother, Where Art Thou (2000)?] After some failed attempts dressed as a hobo and companionship on the road with an aspiring blonde actress simply called The Girl (Veronica Lake in her second picture following her work inI Wanted Wings (1941)) and wearing boy's clothes, he succeeded in losing his freedom, identity and name, health, pride and money.].The semi-trashy, crime drama's suggestive hemes included implied impotence, sadomasochism, misogyny and homosexuality, although liberally camouflaged by euphemisms and innuendo to bypass he Production Code; its main theme was a strange, tawdry, aberrant romantic triangle (menage a trois) between the three main characters (husband, wife, and lover) - with homo-erotic overtones.He walked over to the capped, metal-lined well, and had flashbacked memories to the day of the nuclear blast when he had saved Ichiro Yashida, Mariko's grandfather.The action is narrated, in flashback, by an offscreen character, the local Catholic Father Peter Lonergan (Ward Bond), the priest of the parish who is also a devoted fisherman, as he clears his throat:Now, I'll begin at the beginnin'.When Esther is performing in a song and dance act during a performance by the Glenn Williams Orchestra, Norman lurches onstage, making a drunken spectacle of himself in front of the audience.