《Body and Soul (1931)》Storyline
Whitmore (skeptically): Don""t you have to be twenty-one to fill prescriptions?Hackenbush: Well, uh, that""s for grown-ups.(It was met with rave reviews in Europe, and won Best Picture at the Brussels Film Festival).It was completely un-nominated for Academy Awards -- bypassed by the Academy that instead gave Best Picture honors to he frothy, somewhat distasteful musical tale ofGigi (1958)(with a record nine Oscar wins), about a young woman trained to be a courtesan of a wealthy suitor.The big-budget horror film grossed about $33.4 million (on a budget of $2.3 million), and received two Academy Award nominations: one for Polanski""s Best Adapted Screenplay, and Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as one of the well-meaning, ""normal"" NYC neighbors.A group of courier-aviators in a mythical outpost in South America (in a confined, tropical area centered around a kindly Dutchman""s bar), led by the flinty and often unlikeably rude "Papa" (Cary Grant), face hazards and mortality every day as they fly over fog-shrouded Andes mountains to deliver the mail within a banana republic.