Top cast:Carlyle Blackwell,Alice Joyce,Knute Rahm
Director:Martin Bourboulon
Genre:Thriller
Region:Indonesia
Year:2002
Storyline:After entering Earth""s atmosphere (later revealed to be the year 1951, three years later), the spaceship crash-landed in a rural farming wheat-field near the US town of Smallville, Kansas, where two middle-aged adults Jonathan Kent (Glenn Ford) and his wife Martha Kent (Phyllis Thaxter) were driving by in a pickup truck when it had a flat rear tire.[Note: The notorious character of Mike Hammer first appeared in Spillane""sI, he Juryin 1947.] It was adapted from a screenplay by A.I.Bezzerides.The film is a low-budget, B-grade film (at a cost of about $400,000) without recognizable actors.As a counterpoint to he hard-boiled film, cultural allusions abound: the Christina Rossetti poem "Remember," and a Caruso vocal recording - to name a few.BackgroundThe Maltese Falcon(1941) is one of the most popular and best classic detective mysteries ever made, and many film historians consider it thefirstin the darkfilm noirgenre in Hollywood." They pushed on to Calima, because Leo""s device indicated that his crew was already there [the twist was that they had been there for a LONG time!], although they first had to pass, after darkness fell, through a river camp or outpost of ape guards housed in brightly-colored red tents.