Top cast:Tom Cruise,Jennifer Connelly,Miles Teller
Director:Francesco Bertolini&Adolfo Padovan&Giuseppe de Liguoro
Genre:Drama
Region:Germany
Year:2011
Storyline:Director Griffith""s original budget of $40,000 (expanded o $60,000) quickly ballooned, so Griffith appealed to businessmen and other investors to help finance the film - that eventually cost $110,000! The propagandistic film was one of the biggest box-office money-makers in the history of film, partly due to its exorbitant charge of $2 per ticket - unheard of at the time.Jessica Walter convincingly played the part of a mad, assertive, and unpredictable female who insistently insinuated herself - with passionate jealousy, violence and rage - into the life of a womanizing man who was finally making plans to settle down domestically with his old girlfriend.Work for somebody else.That""s the gratitude I get.Hildy: Oh, I wish you""d stop hamming.Walter: What were you when you came here five years ago? A little college girl from a school of journalism.[Note: An earlier pre-Code filmOnly Yesterday (1933), starring Margaret Sullavan and John Boles, was based upon the same story." Alice recalled how in the dream, Amanda was trying to stop Freddy, but the door slammed before Alice heard what to do in order to free Amanda""s soul:"He must have done it.