Top cast:Florence Lawrence,George Gebhardt,Gladys Egan
Director:Martin Brest
Genre:Western
Region:Australia
Year:2017
Storyline:She saunters back and forth, acting as she imagines society girls would be.She hides her crumpled bouquet in a large planter vase, and daintily powders her nose.Expectantly, she claims that one of the vacant chairs is being held for her non-existent partner.Walter has retreated to a back room where he is throwing dice with the black cloakroom attendants.Then to her utter amazement and shock, as she sits next to old-lady chaperones in an adjoining room, Mildred introduces her to Arthur Russell: "He wants to ask you for this dance.You've idealized that poor dead woman beyond all human recognition." He retorts: "Only I know what I'd lost when she died and what I got in her place."At the gathering, Lavinia monitors Catherine's every action and tells her to use her fan to keep her hands busy - Catherine waves it nervously.But he is disgusted by the greedy, degenerate, scruffy low life characters he has been given to work with as bounty hunters.Cain's 1941 'hard-boiled' novel of the same name.Cain's original novel was a satire about bourgeois values, and a tale of poor parenthood.[Note: Cain was responsible for two sources forfilm noirclassics - his 1936 novella forDouble Indemnity (1944)and his best-selling work forMildred Pierce (1945).