Top cast:Harold M. Shaw,Mary Fuller,Miriam Nesbitt
Director:Vasili Goncharov&Yakov Protazanov
Genre:Biography
Region:Qatar
Year:2001
Storyline:This extremely funny film, very much unlike director Wilder's darker filmsDouble Indemnity (1944)andSunset Boulevard (1950), was advertised with the tagline: "The movie too HOT for words" - vaguely referring to either sex, jazz, or the skimpy costumes.The film also propelled its director, screenwriter, and others of its stars into future careers - Jodie Foster (as actress and director) and Cybill Shepherd (as popular TV star).On the surface, this American film classic is concerned with he themes of individual integrity, group conformity and complacency, and civic responsibility.[Mariachi band music provides soft background ambience.] The scraggly-looking bum, an unkempt, dirty, unshaven and ragged scrounger [later identified as Fred C.