《The Conqueror (1956)》Storyline
Chaplin""s film was re-released in 1942 with added sound narration and music, both spoken and composed/arranged by Chaplin.While berating and angry at Seaman "Horrible" Lugatch (Claude Akins) on the bridge and reprimanding Ensign Keith as well, the preoccupied Queeg kept ordering the navigating helmsman Stillwell (Todd Karns) to faithfully keep on course, not realizing that the ship was steaming aimlessly around in a circular path ("right standard rudder").Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This was the ninth film in the series - a nasty remake (or updated re-imagining) of the original 1978 film - with the first half or two-thirds a prequel, and the final half or third a fairly faithful remake and reshooting of the original."At the same time, Clark and Lois were on a long car drive back from the North to Metropolis - she was still astonished by what he had given up for her.Set-pieces:the opener: a spectacular mid-air skyjacking by commandos (rappelling on cables from a C-130 Hercules transport onto a CIA plane below), the assault on Gotham Stock Exchange and the subsequent pursuit, the explosions that rapped police officers underground and destroyed a football stadium, he mob""s rampaging destruction of Gotham City, the all-out war between the police and Bane""s thugs in the streets, and the chase after the bomb truck by the Batpod and the Bat culminating in the bomb""s explosion over the Bay.