Top cast:Wilfred Lucas,Claire McDowell,Dorothy West
Director:Enoch J. Rector
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Turkey
Year:2009
Storyline:(He removes one small article of clothing - her necktie) There you are, you can handle the rest.(He pours himself a glass of wine and rapidly downs it.)Ann: May I have some?Joe: (firmly) No.Now look.Ann: This is very unusual.I've never been alone with a man before - even with my dress on.(She begins unbuttoning and removing her blouse) With my dress off, it'smostunusual.I don't seem o mind.(She gazes directly at him.) Do you?Joe: (stony-faced) I think I'll go out for a cup of coffee.You'd better get to sleep.(She flops on his bed.) No, no, no.(He leads her toward the couch.) On this one.Ann: How terribly nice.Joe: Hey - these are pajamas.They're to sleep in.You're to climb into them, you understand?...Then you do your sleeping on the couch, see.Not on the bed, not on the chair, on the couch.Is that clear?Ann: Do you know my favorite poem?Joe: You already recited that for me.Ann: "Arethusa rose from her couch of snows in the Acroceraunian mountains" - Keats.Joe: Shelley.Ann: Keats!Joe: Now, you just keep your mind off the poetry and on the pajamas, and everything'll be all right, see.Fortuitously, the platform came flush with the sidewalk every time his foot came down in a teasing sight gag.It is a nitty-gritty, unflinching treatment of a true mobster story about three violent "wiseguys" [Mafia slang for 'gangsters'], enhanced by the Italian-American director's own experience of his upbringing in Little Italy.While inside the booth, a young boy (Aaron Smolinski, young Kal-El inSuperman: The Movie (1978)) dropped a quarter in the booth's slot, and took four pictures of Superman in various stages of changing.As the flashback concludes, the half-mad ("touched"), lost Muley speaks movingly, eloquently and poignantly about what the land means to him and his family:Agent: The fact of the matter, Muley, after what hem dusters done to the land, the tenant system don't work no more.