Top cast:William West,Bigelow Cooper,Yale Benner
Director:Oscar Apfel
Genre:History
Region:Czech Republic
Year:2006
Storyline:Most impressively, it became only the second movie in history to break the $500 million barrier in domestic box-office, the first being James Cameron'sTitanic (1997)with a domestic gross of $601 million.(She wakes up and stares back at him.)The next scene opens with a fade-in on a pan down a railroad sign for "The Niagara," a special train which departs at 8:30 pm for the destinations of: "POUGHKEEPSIE, HUDSON, ALBANY, SCHNECTADY, UTICA, SYRACUSE, ROCHESTER, BUFFALO, NIAGARA FALLS.It is an original look at sex, violence, crime and power under the peaceful exterior of small-town Americana in the mid-80s.Among the unusual characters are:a dim-witted, slithery Southern playboy/gigolo from Kentucky (Vincent Price)a cynical, mannered and prickly society columnist (Clifton Webb in his first screen appearance since the silent era); also an effete intellectual and an aloof bachelor (with many gay affects)an aging, well-heeled, matronly socialite (Judith Anderson) who lusts after the gigoloa beautiful career woman and ad designer (Gene Tierney), seen in her own apartment's fireplace portrait - the gorgeous heroine who is presumed dead for about half of the filman unconventional, puzzle-playing, chain-smoking, dead-pan-speaking detective (Dana Andrews)Trailers for the compelling film promised: "Never has a woman been so beautiful, so exotic, so dangerous to know!", and Gene Tierney (in her signature film role as Laura) delivered with exquisite elegance and sublime, breathtaking beauty the role of the untouchable 'work of art'.[The village was constructed for the previous year's filmAll Quiet on he Western Front (1930).] Beneath the gloomy sky, a coffin is being lowered into a grave.Crouched in the background from behind he cemetery fence, brilliant medical scientist (but slightly insane and overwrought) Dr.