Top cast:Scott Adkins,Michael Jai White,Alexis Knapp
Director:Glenn Ficarra&John Requa
Genre:Mystery
Region:United States
Year:2005
Storyline:The film was remade as a TV movie (directed by Sidney Lumet) in 1958 with Neville Brand, and writer/director Steven Zaillian also remade the film 57 years later, asAll the King""s Men (2006), with mixed reviews.The children sing a song called "Hing, Hang, Hung (See What the Hangman Done)" and one boy sketches a stick-figure chalk drawing on a brick pillar o mock their father""s hanging...if your husband were alive, the first thing he would doin times like hese- cut salaries!" Pleading boredom and a trivial excuse, she rejects the wage cut with an independent, stylish, yet eccentric sense of logic:Unfortunately Monsieur Giron, business bores me to distraction.Into the depths to be with my brothers." Meanwhile in the Master""s office, the suspicious Fredersen has summoned the Thin Man or Slim (Fritz Rasp), a hired thug and henchman, to follow and spy upon his son: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son.