Top cast:Sissy Spacek,Piper Laurie,Amy Irving
Director:D.W. Griffith&Mack Sennett
Genre:Crime
Region:Egypt
Year:2004
Storyline:"Cured of a nervous breakdown but without a job, he leaves the hospital to start life anew." The doctor offers some last-minute advice: "Take it easy and avoid excitement." The Tramp, now wearing his familiar outfit, joins a large number of people who are unemployed, since the economy is depressed, and factories are closed.Makes it more exciting."" So now, the guy goes home and he starts screwin"" his own wife, see.So he screws her for a little bit and then he stops, and he goes out of the room and reads LIFE Magazine.Kirk speculated that he might have been chosen for Starfleet""s first 5-year exploratory mission into uncharted deep space, but Spock was less sure.Lauderdale...Laughlin: Who flies crates like these anymore?Project Leader: No one.These planes were reported missing in 1945.Laughlin: But it looks brand new.Where""s the pilot? I don""t understand.Where""s the crew? Hey! How the hell did it get here?Laughlin poses unanswerable questions, as the leader finds personal effects in the cockpit of one of the planes - sepia photographs and a 1945 calendar from a bar in Pensacola, Florida.[Note: It was the first full-length feature made at Paramount""s Long Island studio.]This great Bette Davis/Warner Bros picture about a decade later, positioned between the star""sAll This, and Heaven Too (1940)andThe Great Lie (1941), was nominated for a total of seven nominations (with no wins): Best Picture, Best Actress (Bette Davis - her fourth nomination), Best Supporting Actor (James Stephenson), Best Director, Best B/W Cinematography (Gaetano Gaudio), Best Original Score (Max Steiner), and Best Film Editing.