Top cast:Roddy McDowall,Claude Akins,Natalie Trundy
Director:Herbert Brenon&Otis Turner
Genre:Action
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2005
Storyline:It can be categorized within many film genres - it functions as a horror film, a war film, a science fiction film, a black comedy, a suspense-thriller, and a political melodrama (with additional segments of romance and action).The revelation of Madeleine in the next scene in Ernie's restaurant is masterfully directed.[Ernie's supper club was an actual landmark, located at 847 Montgomery St.in San Francisco, but closed in September, 1995.In fact, the interior and exterior shots of Ernie's in the film were sets.The restaurant was noted for its striking red interior, and later appeared in the Woody Allen filmTake he Money and Run (1969)...Jerry: Wait a minute.What's wrong with us?Poliakoff: You're the wrong shape.Goodbye.Joe: The wrong shape.What are you looking for? Hunchbacks or something?Poliakoff: It's not the backs that worry me.Joe: What kind of a band is it anyway?Poliakoff: You gotta be under 25.Jerry: (insisting) We could pass for that.Poliakoff: You gotta be blonde.Jerry: We could dye our hair.Poliakoff: And you gotta be girls.Jerry: We could...Joe: (cutting him off) No, we couldn't.Desperate for a job, Jerry suggests that they take it, but Joe thinks he's crazy: "He's got an empty stomach and it's gone to his head.Ethan's hardness and guarded, mysterious background reflect his inability o accept or understand society, or to embrace family life for himself.