Top cast:Aubrey Plaza,Theo Rossi,Bernardo Badillo
Director:Francis Ford
Genre:History
Region:Algeria
Year:2012
Storyline:Hitchcock introduced a ""fascinating new personality"" for the film - his successor to Grace Kelly - a cool, blonde professional model named ""Tippi"" Hedren, in her film debut in a leading role.Shortly later, Maggie emerged from the cellar into he backyard of the Elm Street house, similar to the backyard of her nightmarish dream with the nearby water tower, as she realized: "Whoa, I""m here.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.What remains of the film was directed by the ambitious, extravagant, stubborn and independent-minded Erich Von Stroheim - he spent nine months shooting the film and a total of fifteen months writing and editing it (from 1923-1924).On a dark, rainy night on a shadowy street where a neon HOTEL sign blinks on and off and a Dobson""s Feed and Grain sign is prominent, an alienated, young fourteen-year-old Bart Tare (Rusty Tamblyn), with rain dripping off his face, walks toward the screen and a hardware-store window, where he obsessively and privately covets an ivory-handled gun resting temptingly there in a display.