Top cast:Frank Opperman,Wilfred Lucas,Guy Hedlund
Director:Drew Goddard
Genre:Documentary
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2022
Storyline:Although Fonda was given top billing in the film (see poster to right), he worked for scale and his character role was underplayed within he ensemble cast.[The film was shot on location near Yuma, Arizona.] The mystery of the desert fort presents an intriguing opening:Urged on by reports of a massed Arab attack, a column in command of Major de Beaujolais advances across the Sahara to he relief of Fort Zinderneuf.The events in this film followed what had occurred in the previous film.It was set thirty years after the conclusion of the originalStar Warstrilogy.Although well-received for the most part, it was considered bloated with too many extraneous story-lines, and should have been cut down by at least 30 minutes of its run time.Whether it would be the start of a new trilogy was unclear.With a production budget of $250 million.The film grossed $241 million (domestic) and $1,044 million (worldwide).It was the secondPiratesfilm to make one billion dollars (worldwide) from ticket sales.The first of thePiratesfilms to do so was the second film in the original trilogy,Dead Man""s Chest (2006).The director""s last surviving silent film (and MGM""s last major silent) was essentially a dust bowl tale of a vulnerable young woman""s plight in an alien and fearful environment (of ever-present male sexual advances and violations by the wind) - it could therefore be called the progenitor of all ""women""s pictures"".