Top cast：James Kirkwood,Florence Lawrence,Gladys Egan
Director:Béla Zsitkovszky
Genre：Mystery
Region：Philippines
Year：2021
Storyline：Messala offers an ultimatum - be with him in helping o eliminate rebellion or against him."If that is the choice, hen I""m against you," Judah affirms.Marking him as a troublemaker, Messala breaks off their friendship abruptly.Miriam and Tirzah are saddened to hear that Messala has suddenly left their home, hearing hat he wanted to use Ben-Hur to betray their people.In a temper antrum, Ellie defiantly shouts at her father for controlling her life ("I""m over twenty-one and so is he") and not letting her assert her freedom:Ellie You""ve been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.Cinematographer Ernest Lazlo had worked on another famous, earlier film noir,D.O.A.(1950), which prepared him for this film.In both, he used German expressionistic lighting and shadows, reminiscient ofThe Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920).This independent film features a cheap and sleazy, contemptible, fascistic private investigator/vigilante named Mike Hammer whose trademarks are brutish violence, the end-justifies-the-means philosophy and speed.The gloomy cloister""s past eroticism and debauchery was displayed via colorful, erotic art-work of drawings, frescoes and murals portraying nearly-naked, big-breasted Indian maidens-goddesses on its disintegrating walls.He told her the time had come for her first swimming lesson - so that she wouldn""t drown like the Voorhees boy, now at the bottom of the lake.