Top cast:Florence Lawrence,Linda Arvidson,John R. Cumpson
Director:J. Stuart Blackton&William V. Ranous
Genre:Music
Region:Russia
Year:2005
Storyline:The government of a "mythical kingdom" - the Balkan state of Freedonia, is suffering an emergency.It has gone bankrupt through mismanagement and is on the verge of revolution.The country""s richest dowager millionairess, the wide and widowed benefactress Mrs.Gloria Teasdale (Margaret Dumont in a welcome return as the perfect foil for Groucho) has offered $20 million to sponsor and support the cash-poor government, but only if it is placed under new leadership:The government has been mismanaged.Soon after, the couple retired o their tent to make love.Outside, Alexis was repeatedly slashed with a scalpel(# 5 death)by he ""possessed"" Coroner, after which the love-making couple in he tent was also murdered - the killer stepped on their discarded and unused condom as he approached.Lise conveys five guises, moods, styles, or aspects of her character: exciting or sexy, sweet and shy, vivacious and modern, studious while reading, and gay or athletic.He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence (Henry Travers).The story turns Dickensian (similar toA Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit""s point-of-view rather han from Scrooge""s) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town (Bedford Falls, now renamed Pottersville after the town""s evil tycoon) would be like without him.