Top cast:Blanche Sweet,W. Chrystie Miller,Kate Bruce
Director:David Lynch
Genre:Biography
Region:China
Year:2007
Storyline:[Note: This opening sequence was almost incomprehensible with lots of rowdy drunks and half-heard mumbled conversations in the dimly-lit bar." After all the guests have left her "perfectly hideous party," an inebriated Alicia on a drinking binge sits alone at the table, eyeing the cool, tall, well-dressed man as they finish the last of the drinks." [Marsdits is an disguised reference to Raymond B.Ditmars, the best-known reptile expert in the country at the time.]Pike is reluctant to say farewell to the "company of men" in the expedition that is on a "pursuit of knowledge," as he leaves with his watchful bodyguard/valet "Muggsy" Murgatroyd (William Demarest).[One of her trademark characteristics is that she bites her finger.]"The Boy, unacquainted with the little Dear One, is employed with his father in the same mill." Both he Boy (Robert Harron) and his father leave their small bungalow and join a throng of men going to work and entering the factory gate.