Top cast:Charles Ogle,Nathalie Jerome,Harold M. Shaw
Director:Sidney Olcott
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Nigeria
Year:2002
Storyline:I make an honest living.People only come to me when they""re in a desperate situation.I help ""em out.I don""t kick families out of their houses like you bums down at he bank do.To cool things down and forestall a fistfight with he other customer, Jake""s barber tells him a dirty story (a crude ethnic joke) about matrimonial "screwing" like a Chinaman (prolonged intercourse interspersed with interruptions).With numerous, elaborate montage sequences with staccato shifts, the film set a record for more edits (3,643 shot-to-shot edits at one count) than any other Technicolor film up to its time.The film ended with Sam joining his new wife and family in their Shire home ("Well, I""m back").Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With many of the same characters from the first two films.With eleven Academy Award nominations (and eleven wins): Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects.This classic film anticipated the heist films of the early 50s (John Huston""sThe Asphalt Jungle (1950), and Stanley Kubrick""sThe Killing (1956)), accentuated the semi-documentary style of films of the period (Naked City (1948)) with its emphasis on new hi-tech forensic methods, and contained film-noirish elements, including the shady black and white cinematography, thefemme fatalecharacter, and the twisted psyche of the criminal gangster.