Top cast:Alec B. Francis,Isabel Lamon,Muriel Ostriche
Director:Richard Marquand
Genre:Mystery
Region:South Africa
Year:2002
Storyline:..My daddy would turn over in his grave if he knew, he would just urn over in his grave.Archie: If your daddy turned in his grave as often as you say he'd turn in his grave, that old man would plow up the graveyard.]The main criticisms of the albeit intriguing and highly entertaining film were mostly about the many substantial liberties aken regarding the historical Mozart with highly-fictionalized distortions of historical fact to create better drama, including - (1) the fabrication of an intense rivalry between Salieri and Mozart and the many attempts at sabotage to destroy his career that ultimately led to Mozart's premature demise, (2) the horrible American accents by many of the cast members, representing the vernacular German, (3) Salieri's portrayal as a mediocre composer (which he wasn't), and as a chaste bachelor although he was married and had eight children, and reportedly had soprano-pupil Caterina Cavalieri as a mistress, (4) the fact that Mozart had two surviving children instead of only one, and (5) theRequiem Masswas commissioned not by a disguised Salieri but anonymously by a vain, plagiarist - German aristocrat Count Walsegg-Stuppach (known at the time as the mysterious 'Grey Messenger'), and the completion of the unfinishedMasswas by Mozart's assistant, composer/conductor Franz Xaver Süssmayr - it wasn't dictated to Salieri.The crusty old Howard looks at Dobbs and then continues with stories to his fellow "down-and-outers." He recalls his past gold quests all over the world - as though he hadn't been interrupted.He ends his tales of experience (when he witnessed "what gold does to men's souls") by describing how the noble, friendly, and solid intentions of gold-seekers vanished after gold was discovered:Howard: I've dug in Alaska and Canada and Colorado.Dr.Loomis predicted: "Now you'll come, won't you, Michael?"Outside the house, Deputy Eddy Grey's (Fenton Quinn) parked police car was rammed from behind, and his face was repeatedly smashed against the steering wheel(# 9 death)- his death cries was heard on Deputy Bloch's walkie-talkie.