The 74 minute, overrated and stagey, black and white dramaAnna Christie(a down-to-earth version of theCinderellatale) was adapted (by influential screenwriter Frances Marion) from Eugene O""Neill""s play of the same name.The film received a total of four Academy Award nominations, with no wins: Best Actress for Baker, Best Adapted Screenplay for Tennessee Williams, Best Cinematography (Boris Kaufman), and Best Supporting Actress (Mildred Dunnock)...Just the neighborhood and he guys down there.That""s all that""s important to me right now." She guessed that he wanted to help her crazy cousin Johnny Boy:...he is crazy! I mean, he is driving me nuts.I don""t know how can you be with him all the time? He""s like an insane person!Charlie felt he had a spiritual, selfless mission: "Who""s gonna help him if I don""t?.Like the man-apes before him, Dr.Floyd is similarly awed and stirred by his first view of the alien form - it is a religious experience as the men worshipfully gaze at the altar where the monolith stands.Through music, images, and dialogue, the random scenes of the storyline are masterfully coalesced ogether.