Top cast:David Bowie,Jennifer Connelly,Toby Froud
Director:Edmund Lawrence
Genre:Crime
Region:Kuwait
Year:2021
Storyline:Could we live on $150 a year?Arabella: Well, we wouldn""t need any money.I""ve got a charge account at every shop on Fifth Avenue.John: Well, if I had any brains, I""d give up painting and get a regular job.To help her fiancee""s dire financial situation, Arabella suggests that Chandler buy one of John""s paintings, but John scoffs: "Chandler! Ha! What does he know about art?"In another section of the mansion, Spaulding charms, flirts with, and insults Mrs.Impulsively, he insisted hat he must have it immediately ("I can""t live without it"), and she helped him to load the oversized, heavy and unwieldy piece of art-junk into the back of his convertible."" Uh, no, let me start this over...an industrial area in Chelsea, with a footbridge over a busy city street (an unused railway line)the Queensboro Bridgethe EMPIRE DINER (on Tenth Avenue in Chelsea)the snow-covered and lamp-lit streets of Park Avenuetrucks on the West Side (with the World Trade Center in the background)crowded streets and a streetside fruit marketpeople waiting to cross a street at an intersection (with a "DON""T WALK" sign)CORNY""Chapter One: He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else.]The melodramatic, Freudian-based crime film, with recurring hemes of betrayal and trust, is enhanced by the musical score of Max Steiner and the frantic pacing brilliantly served up by the director.8 and $2.5 million (and with domestic revenue of $3.27 million), it was one of he biggest productions of its era.(It was RKO""s second-most expensive film to date, topped only by the same year""sGunga Din (1939)).The sets were imposing, the cast was first rate, and the script (screenplay by Sonya Levien and adaptation by Bruno Frank) was engrossing.