Top cast:Harold Lockwood,Ann Little,J. Barney Sherry
Director:Joseph Kosinski
Genre:Thriller
Region:Netherlands
Year:2023
Storyline:The film marked the beginning of a number of screwball comedies in the 1940s that emphasized the conflict for women in deciding between love/marriage and professional careers.The killer survived the long fall and a dynamite blast as he crawled out a side tunnel and then floated downstream in a rushing river.[The real blacks in the film only played in minor roles.]Its climactic finale, the suppression of the black hreat to white society by the glorious Ku Klux Klan, helped to assuage some of America""s sexual fears about the rise of defiant, strong (and sexual) black men and the repeal of laws forbidding intermarriage.Three of the characters would become involved in a love triangle.Befitting the film""s satirical heme of admiring or fantasizing about film idols on-screen while struggling in the real world, one might hypothesize that the Boy idolized current film star John Barrymore (who starred inSherlock Holmes (1922), wo years earlier), while the Girl resembled and aspired to be like cinema""s curly-locked sweetheart Mary Pickford, and the Sheik was an aspiring wanna-be Rudolph Valentino (who starred as the itle character inThe Sheik (1921).I""m an alcoholic, I can""t take a drink.And I""m afraid of what we""d do to each other....You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank.I got ahold of something that kept me from going under.And I""m not gonna let go of it.Not for you, not for anyone.If you want o grab on, grab on.But there""s just room for you and me, no threesome.Kirsten wanders off after their failure to come together, and Joe tells their young daughter Debbie (Debbie Megowan) that she might not return: "Honey, Mommy""s sick.