Top cast:Maurice Costello,Florence Lawrence,William V. Ranous
Director:George Lucas
Genre:War
Region:Norway
Year:1999
Storyline:You""re always squawking about something.If it isn""t the steak, it""s something else.Fields (muttering): I didn""t squawk about the steak, dear.I merely said I didn""t see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.Waitress (sneering): You""re as funny as a cry for help.(As she approaches the table, he gives her an underhanded compliment.)Fields: You used to be an old Follies girl?Waitress: You know, there""s something awfully big about you."Electrical engineer Dillon was asked to stay behind (on his birthday) and examine a current flow problem in the lab, as everyone else left the Oscorp facility.[Burden""s story is, in actuality, the truth of the rise and fall of a political king, who like Humpty Dumpty in the rhyme, falls from grace and can""t be put back together again.Inside were pieces of broken-down furniture and rotting wood.As he opened a door to an inner room (not shown) and exclaimed: "Oh, my God!", an unseen figure bludgeoned him in the back of the head with a hammer claw(# 3 death).In more modern times,Coming Home (1978)portrayed he same plight of the returning serviceman.The major stars, who each gave the performance of their lives in this Best Picture winner, were:Al Stephenson (Fredric March), the eldest returning veteran, an alcoholic Army Sergeant married to loyal Milly (Myrna Loy)Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), a handsome Air Force bombadier involved in two romances - with party-girl wife Marie (Virginia Mayo), and in a new love relationship with Al""s daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright)Homer Parrish (Harold Russell almost uncredited in the film, a WWII vet) as a sailor, the hometown""s former football hero, involved with fiancee/girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O""Donnell)The germinal idea for the literate, meticulously-constructed film came from aTimeMagazine pictorial article (August 7, 1944) that was then re-fashioned into a novel titledGlory for Meby commissioned author MacKinlay Kantor.