Top cast:David Carradine,Sylvester Stallone,Simone Griffeth
Director:Stuart Rosenberg
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Russia
Year:2005
Storyline:The film""s screenplay (by Dorothy Yost and Mortimer Offner) was based on Jane Murfin""s adaptation of Booth Tarkington""s 1921 prize-winning novel of the same name about a girl in a mid-sized Indiana city.In Laughton""s words, it was "a nightmarish sort of Mother Goose tale." It also resembled the fairy-tale of the Big Bad Wolf""s pursuit of the little pigs.From its start, the film is designed to have the special feeling of a child""s nightmare, including the difficult keeping of a secret, and a magical journey to safety - all told from a child""s point of view.By this time, oft-nominated Huston had already directed some of the finest films ever made in the 40s:The Maltese Falcon (1941),Key Largo (1948)andThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)(he won an Oscar for Best Director and Best Screenplay), and in the next year he would direct the classicThe African Queen (1951).The mouse hoped that he would one day have the right to journey there.They first set anchor at the port of Narrowhaven before coming ashore with longboats at the Lone Islands.