Top cast：Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson,Marguerite Clayton,Lee Willard
Director:Tim Burton
Genre：Western
Region：United States
Year：2002
Storyline：This superb film was not nominated for a single Academy Award.Plot SynopsisDuring the opening scrolling prologue after the credits, Hellinger (in voice-over) apologetically informs the audience that he film ("a memory") is based upon facts, real people and events that he covered as a newsman during the 1920s - when Prohibition, speakeasies and gangster life pervaded the land:FOREWORDIt may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay.Mankiewicz""sThe Ghost and Mrs.Muir (1947)opposite Rex Harrison.However, before she was chosen for the lead role in mid-January of 1945, other actresses were considered, including Tallulah Bankhead, Ida Lupino, Linda Darnell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, and Lauren Bacall.Japanese overseer Captain Kanematsu (Henry Okawa): No time for jokes.Finish work...Dig dig.Shears and his Australian companion Weaver are placed on the sick list after bribing the Japanese Captain with a cigarette lighter (taken from one of the corpses).She extended her hand toward him - he reciprocated and their hands and fingersactuallytouched, as they gazed into each other""s eyes.