Top cast:Mabel Normand,Alfred Paget,Dark Cloud
Director:Joe Wright
Genre:Romance
Region:Japan
Year:2000
Storyline:" [The reason for the film""s title is never explicitly explained within he film.] The tale opens on a foggy night with the docking of the shipSan Luisat the small, exotic port of Barranca in Ecuador:BARRANCAPort of call for the South American banana boats.In a flashback, it was recalled that the dragon Smaug had destroyed the town of Dale, ruled by Lord Girion (also Luke Evans).You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number.Any man forgets his number spends the night in the box.These here spoons, you keep with ya.Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box.There""s no playin"" grab-ass or fightin"" in the building.You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon.Any man playin"" grab-ass or fightin"" in the building spends a night in the box.First bell is at five minutes of eight...Last bell is at eight.Any man not in his bunk at eight spends a night in he box.There""s no smokin"" in the prone position in bed.If you smoke, you must have both legs over the side of your bunk.Any man caught smokin"" in the prone position in bed spends the night in the box.You""ll get two sheets.Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top and the top sheet on the bottom.The bottom sheet you turn into the laundry boy.Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box.No one will sit in the bunks with dirty pants on.Any man with dirty pants on sittin"" on the bunks spends a night in the box.Any man don""t bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box.Any man loud-talkin"" spends a night in the box.You got questions, you come to me...Any man don""t keep order spends a night in the box.Carr immediately senses Luke""s cool contempt: "I hope you ain""t gonna be a hard case." Hulking, illiterate, and powerful boss convict Dragline (George Kennedy) bullies one of the new convicts with his own top-dog attitude: "Boy, you""re new meat.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This film was a prequel to the entire series.It was thefirststand-alone feature and origin story, set about 20 years before the film trilogy.A second spinoff film of Marvel""s solo character (the Wolverine) was found inThe Wolverine (2013),directed by James Mangold.]One of the memorable images is the slow-motion sight of one of the escaping riders being shot from his horse, and cascading hrough a store-front, glass window of a dressmaker""s shop.