Top cast:James Kirkwood,Owen Moore,Mary Pickford
Director:Max Mack
Genre:Game-Show
Region:Iraq
Year:2014
Storyline:Lancaster had earlier played a similar manipulative huckster in the filmThe Rainmaker (1956).The film was very popular and a box-office hit - on a budget of $3 million, it grossed $11.3 million dollars.It was shot in the uncharacteristic and unfashionable aspect ratio of 1.33, in protest to the current prevailing trend for CinemaScope features.The film was nominated for five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Score (Andre Previn)) and won three: Best Actor for Burt Lancaster (his sole Oscar win of four Best Actor nominations), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks), and Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones with her sole Oscar nomination, known for her squeaky-clean role in TV""sThe Partridge Family)."Oscar-winning Edmund Gwenn was the only actor to win an Oscar for playing Santa Claus.Plot SynopsisOpening Title Credits:During the opening credits, on the streets of New York City on Thanksgiving Day, the camera tracked and followed an unidentified gentleman as he walked along various sidewalks.Willie is encouraged to run for state governor by state bosses in the capital, but he is really being manipulated by hem as a spoiler candidate to split the rural "hick" vote...And his record 44 victories - he""s had 38 by knock-out, and he""s lost 20 bouts." The world heavyweight, show-boating champion Creed entered he Bicentennially-decorated ring with tremendous fanfare, dressed up in a George Washington wig and period costume and riding in a boat - supposedly impersonating the famous President who crossed the Delaware.