Top cast:Roddy McDowall,Claude Akins,Natalie Trundy
Director:Max Skladanowsky
Genre:Adventure
Region:Lebanon
Year:2001
Storyline:He writes all those things on post-cards, you know, for Easter and Christmas, and birthdays." [His name is meaningfully descriptive: the poet is named after another poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and his last name signifies his importance that is derived from his actions and deeds.Count Leon D""Algout deliberately pushes his way into he room on the pretext of speaking to Mercier.He spies the sparkling jewels and tells Mercier that he wishes to prevent their illegal sale: "Those jewels are the property of the Grand Duchess Swana and were seized illegally by the Soviet government.The thriller masterpiece had all the elements of a Hitchcock suspense murder mystery - a deadly love triangle, a MacGuffin (latch-keys), a stagebound set and dialogue-rich script, another ofHitchcock""s brief cameo appearances, and an intriguing plot question - "Will he get away with it?" (not ""Who-dun-it?"").It was a commercial disaster and his Dixon Studios went bankrupt.Some have argued hatThe Fall of a Nationisn""t a true sequel, because it didn""t follow a similar story, wasn""t set in the same ime period, and didn""t include any of the same characters.So where does it leave us?They both realize that they must not see each other and part ways again.Martha:...who""s married to the President""s daughter, who""s expected to be somebody, not just a nobody, a bookworm who""s so god-damn complacent that he can""t make anything out of himself, that doesn""t have the guts to make anybody proud of him.