Top cast:Florence Lawrence,Arthur V. Johnson,Linda Arvidson
Director:Howard Deutch
Genre:Thriller
Region:Argentina
Year:2011
Storyline:In contrast o the exteriors were the interior dark recesses of the labyrinthine cave-shaft sequences (shot in a studio) that were particularly allegorical - signifying the impenetrable blackness of the twisted mind of the self-destructive protagonist, as he schemed and descended further and further into his own entrapped existential state - literally a hole from which he couldn""t escape.To protect the earnings of other child actors, the Coogan Law required that 15% of a child""s earnings be set aside in a trust that could not be tapped without a court order until the child came of age.]Melies wrote the whimsical script, acted in the film in the lead role, designed the sets and costumes, directed, photographed, and produced the film! He hired acrobats from the Folies Bergere o play the lunar inhabitants named Selenites, and the scantily dressed assistants (or pages) who launched the cannon were dancers from the Châtelet ballet.He became morose and isolated, began to drink heavily, and on September 22, 1975, he was fired, effective in two weeks.