BackgroundA Star is Bornis the superb 1954 dramatic musical and tearjerker, acclaimed by many as the greatest Hollywood musical ever made.[Note: It was produced by B.B.S.(formed by Bob Rafelson - the director ofFive Easy Pieces (1970), Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner), already known for the groundbreaking, surrealisticHead (1968), a cult masterpiece that starred the Monkees (from the popular TV series) and was co-written by unemployed actor Jack Nicholson.In his Los Angeles Division office, US Treasury Agent Evans still struggles to find the identities of the train thieves.[The village was constructed for the previous year""s filmAll Quiet on he Western Front (1930).] Beneath the gloomy sky, a coffin is being lowered into a grave.Crouched in the background from behind he cemetery fence, brilliant medical scientist (but slightly insane and overwrought) Dr.