Top cast:Edward Dillon,J. Jiquel Lanoe,Jack Pickford
Director:Rob Marshall
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:France
Year:2001
Storyline:Plot Synopsis1917The film opened with a strange and foreboding prologue.Under a black screen, a voice (a toy salesman) asked: "Want o see it again, little girl? It shouldn""t frighten you," as a young girl cried and clung to her mother""s dress.Catherine apologizes that she must leave the party early with her father and Aunt.He asks that he might call at the Sloper house to see her again, and then kisses her hand as she leaves.He secretly stashes the bulrushes in a barn after a horse violently nuzzles him.Sneaking stealthily to his bed, he lies down as if drugged.As he falls asleep exhausted, he sleeps fitfully while consumed and obsessed with his murderous plot.He doesn""t sleep.He barely eats.He""s not been himself.Not at all.It""s this place.Ahem.I think a sickness lies on it.They proceeded down a series of steps to view the massive hoard of treasure inside the mountain, where Thorin was walking and madly mumbling to himself: "Gold.In the film""s fourteen scenes, a narrative story with multiple plot lines was told - with elements that were copied repeatedly afterwards by future westerns - of a train holdup with six-shooters, a daring robbery accompanied by violence and death, a hastily-assembled posse""s chase on horseback after the fleeing bandits, and the apprehension of the desperadoes after a showdown in the woods.