Top cast:Denzel Washington,Rami Malek,Jared Leto
Director:Ruben Östlund
Genre:Musical
Region:South Africa
Year:2013
Storyline:It is considered one of Hollywood""s all-time most romantic/drama classics.Filmed with haunting beauty, it is the first film dramatization of Emily Bronte""s wildly passionate 1847 best-selling literary masterpiece, from a screenplay written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (concentrating on the first two-thirds or 17 chapters of the 34 chapter book)." Because it""s "stuffy" in the house, she invites him to a "picnic" in a provocative,double-entendreladen conversation, linked to him by drinking out of the same glass:Alicia: It""s too stuffy in here for a picnic.They descended by elevator into a claustrophobic underground bunker (a missile silo), the Seminole Storage Facility, where they told Pvt.In more modern times,Coming Home (1978)portrayed he same plight of the returning serviceman.The major stars, who each gave the performance of their lives in this Best Picture winner, were:Al Stephenson (Fredric March), the eldest returning veteran, an alcoholic Army Sergeant married to loyal Milly (Myrna Loy)Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), a handsome Air Force bombadier involved in two romances - with party-girl wife Marie (Virginia Mayo), and in a new love relationship with Al""s daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright)Homer Parrish (Harold Russell almost uncredited in the film, a WWII vet) as a sailor, the hometown""s former football hero, involved with fiancee/girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O""Donnell)The germinal idea for the literate, meticulously-constructed film came from aTimeMagazine pictorial article (August 7, 1944) that was then re-fashioned into a novel titledGlory for Meby commissioned author MacKinlay Kantor.He had directed two other circus-related films:The Show (1927)andThe Unknown (1927).After this grotesque film, Browning""s career was destroyed and would never be the same - he directed only a few more films through 1939 before retiring.