Top cast:Isabel May,Radha Mitchell,Thomas Jane
Director:Ned Finley
Genre:Crime
Region:Japan
Year:2002
Storyline:Other films in the early 1940s that provided commentary about conditions during wartime Washington DC, included RKO""s romantic comedyGovernment Girl (1943)starring Olivia de Havilland, Paramount""sStanding Room Only (1944)with Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray, and Universal""s hour-long musical comedyGet Going (1943).Miyoshi Umeki became the first East Asian-American woman to win an Academy Award for acting.The beautiful cinematography (in Technirama) by Ellsworth Fredericks was shot on-location in Japan (mostly in Kyoto), providing gorgeous, stereotypical views of Japanese standards, such as kabuki, geisha, the tea ceremony, paper-walled houses and zen gardens.Beni noted Rick""s motivation to return to Hamunaptra with Evelyn: "You always did have more balls than brains.She described her offbeat ""life-as-baseball"" belief in a celebrated "The Church of Baseball" monologue (sermon, actually) to the accompaniment of church organ music, as the camera panned from the pictures toward he right of the frame, to her bedroom and her makeup mirror where she was touching herself up in front of a mirror at her dressing table:"I believe in the Church of Baseball.