Top cast:Guy Coombs,Miriam Cooper,Hal Clements
Director:Viggo Mortensen
Genre:Thriller
Region:Denmark
Year:2009
Storyline:"The love scenes between the stars, composed mostly of break-ups and reconciliations, were played out in movement to music.But then in full view of all the prisoners during a rumor-control session in the mess hall, the Alien seized disbelieving warden Harold Andrews.Michael was relentlessly shot dozens of times by state police before he fell down into the entrance of an abandoned, collapsing mine shaft.Not a darn thing.Not where he comes from, what he makes, or what he makes making it.Only thing we know about him is his name, and you weren't too sure about that.Yet he walks in, and we hand him Kay....I want o know whether he's going to make her happy.Whether he's going o make a home for her, can he support her?"- Stanley's desire is to follow through on all that "old-fashioned rigmarole" including the lengthy "man-to-man" talk (a fireside "little chat") he has with Buckley about his financial prospects (three months before the nuptials), to determine if he can suitably support Kay; the interview is interminably long and boring- during the required meeting of the Banks to get o know the wealthy in-laws the Dunstans, Stanley and Ellie meet with Herbert or "Herbie" (Moroni Olsen) and Doris Dunstan (Billie Burke), who live in much more than a "shack"; Stanley admits (in voice-over) about the meeting: "We did more bare-faced lying in those few minutes than we had done in our entire lives"; he get-together in the Dunstan's living room ends when Stanley drinks too much Madeira (fortified wine from Portugal) and falls asleep upright on the couch in the midst of the discussion- in the scene of the Banks' party to announce the engagement (the guests routinely decline Stanley's pre-prepared martinis and order many other varieties of drinks), Stanley finds himself confined to the kitchen and is unable to deliver his prepared speech; he is advised about finances and his place in the proceedings: "Enjoy your minute in the limelight." After he heard the clicking beak of a thrush on the stone and saw the light of a crescent moon in the sky, the keyhole was illuminated in a halo of light.