Top cast:J. Barney Sherry,Jane Keckley,Viola Barry
Director:Chloé Zhao
Genre:Action
Region:Lebanon
Year:2003
Storyline:Hildy: (She pauses and walks backwards to him.) What did you say?Bruce: What?Hildy: Go on.(He laughs sheepishly) Well, go ahead.Bruce: Well, I just said, 'Even ten minutes is a long time to be away from you.'Hildy: I heard you the first time.I like it.That's why I asked you to say it again.Hildy turns and strides through the working offices from left to right.The camera tracks her movement as she extends hellos, a pat on the back, exchanges of information, and smiles to her co-workers.The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor (Paul Newman, who lost to Rod Steiger inIn he Heat of the Night (1967)), Best Supporting Actor (George Kennedy in a break-out role), Best Adapted Screenplay (Donn Pearce and Frank R.[Note: The opening sequence evoked memories of the similar scene at the start of Hitchcock'sPsycho (1960).R.H.Macy (Harry Antrim) found out: ("Personally, I think it's a wonderful idea, too....The point is, will Mr.Macy think so?").[Note: The real American businessman and founder of Macy's, R.H.Macy, died in 1877, and then about 20 years later in 1895, the Macy family sold off the business.]Meanwhile, Fred (who was tending to Susan) encouraged he delightfully-skeptical Susan to stand in line to speak to and visit with the new "Santa Claus" in the store and believe in him: ("When you talk to him, you might feel differently about him").In the wind-blown dusty town, the men pass by a South Texas Temperance Union revival, being held under a tent where Mayor Wainscoat (Dub Taylor) preaches to the proper, black-clothed audience about the sinfulness of drink, quoting liberally from Leviticus 10:9, and Proverbs 23:31-32:Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou nor thy sons with thee least ye shall die.