Top cast:Ginnifer Goodwin,Jason Bateman,Idris Elba
Director:Enoch J. Rector
Genre:Mystery
Region:Germany
Year:2000
Storyline:In the form of an office memo, he explains to the firm""s Claims Manager Barton Keyes (Edward G.Robinson) how he committed the "perfect" crime hat wastooperfect:Office memorandum.""Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager, Los Angeles, July 16, 1938.Dear Keyes: I suppose you""ll call this a confession when you hear it.Well, I don""t like he word ""confession."" I just want to set you right about something you couldn""t see because it was smack up against your nose.[Originally, the film was intended to be directed by Jean-Luc Godard or Francois Truffaut, who opted out and madeFahrenheit 451 (1966)instead.The 1938 Warner Bros.film is expensively mounted (at $2 million, it was the studio""s largest budgeted film), and beautifully photographed in glorious and brilliant, three-strip Technicolor (Warners"" first use of color) by cinematographers Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio, especially in the Sherwood Forest sequence [filmed in Bidwell Park in Chico, California] and other scenes of costumed pageantry.Stark.CITIZEN""S COMMITTEE FORMED!Draft Stark to Lead Fight to Rid State of GraftCITIZENS"" COMMITTEE DEMANDS STATE-WIDE INVESTIGATION- Stark Leads Fight - "The People""s Voice Must Be Heard," Says WillieRURAL AREAS IN POLITICAL REVOLT - STATE MACHINE THREATENED- "Sweep Them Out of Office" Cries Willie Stark in Impassioned SpeechBurden is again assigned by his news editor to "stay with him" and follow Stark""s progress in taking "the hick vote" away from the political machine ("Your friend, Willie, is hotter than a firecracker").