Top cast:Patrick Swayze,Keanu Reeves,Gary Busey
Director:Paul Schrader
Genre:Short
Region:Sweden
Year:2019
Storyline:In an artificial grotto, with sculpted columns that rise like stalactites, young women in carnival costumes with head adornments frolic, while peacocks roam.In gritty, documentary-style black and white, director Fred Zinnemann (who had directed the acclaimed westernHigh Noon (1952)a year earlier) accurately captured the isolation and boredom of the military personnel in a close-knit Army barracks on the island of Oahu, combining social/military history with the drama of the personal lives of its main characters - an enlisted man and a neglected officer's wife, and a prostitute and a military outcast.The overly-dramatic Eva replied and vowed: "Oh, I won't.I've sworn it.There will always be a Shaw play in my repertoire as long as I remain in the theater.Of course, I expect to die at my zenith.My star shall never set, I've sworn that, too.And when that moment comes, when I feel that I've done my best, my very best, I shall really die by my own hand some night at the end of the play on the stage.A stool sample was taken to be analyzed in a lab - and Powers happened to pour some of the sample in his coffee mug ("this coffee smells like shit").