Top cast:George Clooney,John Turturro,Tim Blake Nelson
Director:Ol Parker
Genre:Mystery
Region:Taiwan
Year:2019
Storyline:The film won only one award - Best Director.The Oscar-nominated screen adaptation by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (who appears as the hotel's desk clerk) was based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb (a recent graduate of the East Coast's Williams College when he wrote his first novel).He made a "business proposition" toward Powers, although Dr.Evil prevented it by killing Number Two with one of his trap-dooor death chairs.Evil then initiated a 30-second "SELF DESTRUCT" mechanism to blow up the complex, and again escaped in his cryogenic freezing chamber/Big Boy rocketship.) Independent producer Stanley Kramer and director Edward Dmytryk (one of the original blacklisted "Hollywood Ten" and director ofMurder, My Sweet (1944)andCrossfire (1947)) had earlier collaborated on the melodramatic thrillerThe Sniper (1952), the dramatic combat filmEight Iron Men (1952), andThe Juggler (1953)with Kirk Douglas, but this fourth film was their most-acclaimed and successful work.She ripped out a page with a Beauty spell - to make herself beautiful like her sister Susan ("An infallible spell to make you she, the beauty you've always wanted to be"), and hid it.