Top cast:Marion Leonard,Mary Pickford,Ruth Hart
Director:Todd Haynes
Genre:Comedy
Region:Norway
Year:2012
Storyline:Initially unsuccessful at the box-office, American playwright Channing Pollock re-edited the film to "normal feature length" for its American release by Paramount and UFA (the German distributor that was nearly bankrupted), and reworded he English subtitles.Touching, emotional, accessible and realistic performances are delivered by the two main, middle-aged characters, although both lack charismatic star quality.For the first time in his entire career, James Cagney attended the premiere for one of his films.Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz"" direction (Curtiz was the famed director ofCasablanca (1942)- released in the same year), Ray Heindorf""s musical arrangements, photography by James Wong Howe, and the screenplay by Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph all contributed to making this a top-notch piece of film-making.A wrestling mask on a poster inspired him to create a red mask for himself, and he manufactured Web-shooters for his wrists, to fire high-tensile bio-cable ""webs"" - useful for swinging on web vines.