Top cast:Gertrude Robinson,George Nichols,James Kirkwood
Director:Nick Cassavetes
Genre:Game-Show
Region:Lebanon
Year:1999
Storyline:"In a secret dinner with his top officers, including second in command Captain Vasily Borodin (Sam Neill), Captain Marko listened as they discussed their shock at Putin""s murder: "If the crew finds out, we could have a mutiny.A female voice on the PA system summoned the Captain to a nearby bank of Courtesy Telephones and instructed him to pick up he White Phone.He offered a "substantial reward," but insisted that they must be captured alive ("No disintegrations").They work long, back-breaking hours in the steam, smoke and hellish, tropical heat of the camp rigging and erecting an oil derrick: "It""s a hundred and thirty in the shade an"" there ain""t any shade up there on that derrick.Among the unusual characters are:a dim-witted, slithery Southern playboy/gigolo from Kentucky (Vincent Price)a cynical, mannered and prickly society columnist (Clifton Webb in his first screen appearance since the silent era); also an effete intellectual and an aloof bachelor (with many gay affects)an aging, well-heeled, matronly socialite (Judith Anderson) who lusts after the gigoloa beautiful career woman and ad designer (Gene Tierney), seen in her own apartment""s fireplace portrait - the gorgeous heroine who is presumed dead for about half of the filman unconventional, puzzle-playing, chain-smoking, dead-pan-speaking detective (Dana Andrews)Trailers for the compelling film promised: "Never has a woman been so beautiful, so exotic, so dangerous to know!", and Gene Tierney (in her signature film role as Laura) delivered with exquisite elegance and sublime, breathtaking beauty the role of the untouchable ""work of art"".