Top cast:Violette Hill,Mr. Barry,Marie Murray
Director:Neil Marshall
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Norway
Year:2018
Storyline:She was seduced by the aristocratic, charming and glamorous lifestyle she found on he Continent.She flirted with and entered into various sexual affairs, causing her marriage to ultimately fail.With a realistic and complex depiction of the crumbling relationship, the drama pushed the limits of the restrictive Production Code at the time with a frank depiction of marital infidelities (off-screen mostly), the couple""s inevitable breakup, and his association with another woman named Edith.Having designs on her himself, he has her sit down, and asks for her to decide which way she will go.Its low-budget sets and cheap, sleazy atmosphere added to the film""s impact.The film""s rich black-and-white cinematography was provided by Tony Gaudio.W.R.Burnett, the author of the novel on which the film""s screenplay (by Francis Faragoh and Robert N.Lee) was based, was also co-scriptwriter ofScarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932).The crime film""s impact at the start of the sound era was remarkable - its box-office popularity spawned many others like it (mostly from the Warner Bros.In the film""s epilogue, after Rocky and his son raced up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum to the statue, he reminisced: "This is where it all started for me, kid.After witnessing Teddy""s digging of a body-sized hole ("just he right size") in the basement (in Panama), Jonathan and the doctor plan to bring their corpse into the house later that night.