Top cast:Wallace Reid,Gertrude Robinson,Sue Balfour
Director:John McTiernan
Genre:Adventure
Region:South Africa
Year:2012
Storyline:Telephone linemen testing the line tell a telephone operator the news.The eye-batting operator drawls back: "You're elling me?"A closeup of an Actors' Equity Association contract fills the screen.Blurred wipes between shots represented the turning of pages.a near-naked deceased female was extracted from an iron maiden (a torture device consisting of an iron cabinet with a hinged front and spike-covered interior)whippings of individuals who were bound in stocks or other restraining devicesa rotating wheel with a nude woman tied to itthe pre-rape stripping of the blouse of a femalemultiple axe-executions and beheadingsa group of four bound, topless females burned at a stakean upside-down, swinging male torture victim used as a cathedral's giant bell-clapperProposal of Marriage:The last image culminated in a dissolve from the human bell-clapper into the hoop skirt of the young 15 year-old Empress-to-be (Marlene Dietrich) being pushed on a flower-decorated swing in her garden.The crisply-written screenplay (by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt) was based on the play and novel of the same name by Vera Caspary.Walter: Oh! Well in that case, the raise is off.You go back to your old salary...(The phone rings and he answers it.)Hildy: Walter, I want to show you something.It's here.It's a ring.Take a good look at it.Do you know what it is? It's an engagement ring.(He stops short for the first time.) I tried to tell you right away, but you would start reminiscing.I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.Confounded and conflicted about whether he should intervene in world affairs on his adoptive planet, Clark walked off alone, removed his glasses, and was next seen flying to his Fortress of Solitude as Superman.