Top cast:Verner Clarges,Henry B. Walthall,Joseph Graybill
Director:Stellan Rye
Genre:Crime
Region:Vietnam
Year:2001
Storyline:Henry Fonda, a superb character actor, portrays the life of the legendary Wyatt Earp, an independent, drifter cowboy and ex-marshal who becomes a responsible lawman.One of the main factors hat caused an increase in nuclear anxiety among filmmakers and the general public in the 1950s was the successful test of the Soviet""s first nuclear device in late August, 1949.There, he drives a truck in a lumbering company - his "first job in four months." But the job is short-lived and he must again hit the road.Appearing increasingly like a transient, penniless bum, he travels by rail to the St.Louis area.In a pawn shop, he offers to give up his BelgianCroix de Guerre, but the owner already has a drawer case full of medals from other unemployed, vagrant veterans.Others hat swept across movie screens in the late 70""s and 80s to illustrate he ""hellish"", futile conditions of bloody Vietnam War combat included:the Oscar-winning documentaryHearts and Minds (1974)Francis Ford Coppola""sApocalypse Now (1979)Oliver Stone""sPlatoon (1986)Stanley Kubrick""sFull Metal Jacket (1987)John Irvin""sHamburger Hill (1987)Oliver Stone""sBorn on the Fourth of July (1989)Brian De Palma""sCasualties of War (1989)This film received nine Academy Award nominations (including Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Cinematography (by Vilmos Zsigmond - who had just filmed Spielberg""sClose Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)), and Best Original Screenplay), and won five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), Best Director, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing.Levine to release it after its disastrous premiere in Pittsburg in late 1967 - the only compromise being a change from the original titleSpringtime For HitlertoThe Producers.