Top cast:Augustus Carney,Victor Potel,Gladys Field
Director:Charlie Kaufman
Genre:Action
Region:Qatar
Year:2001
Storyline:Its dark tone also recalled Bogart""s first filmTo Have and Have Not (1942)with Lauren Bacall.Due to its stage-play origins (where the sets were confined and limited), the film also was concentrated within a claustrophobic Southern Florida hotel overtaken by sleazy mobsters - in the midst of an off-season impending storm - when volatile elements were converged together (runaway fugitive Indians, a beaten-up deputy and suspicious sheriff, and gangsters delayed during a counterfeit money deal with other criminals from Miami).]Dimitri Tiomkin""s original musical score, including he hauntingMerry Widowwaltz, adds a degree of mystery to he tale about Uncle Charlie, a psychotic killer whose namesake niece, an adoring teenager-heroine named Charlie, is emotionally excited by the arrival of her worldly uncle, but her opinion of him slowly changes as she probes into his evil, murderous secrets - and her life becomes endangered.Gaston: I""m crazy about you.By the way, your pin.(He returns her brooch pin - after appraising it.)Lily: (after suddenly noticing she""s missing it) Thank you, Baron.Gaston: Not at all.There""s one very good stone in it.Lily: What time is it? (She allows him to search for his pocket watch before looking startled.She hands it to him from her purse - after resetting it.) It was five minutes slow but I regulated it for you.(He pockets the watch with a smile.)Gaston: I hope you don""t mind if I keep your garter.(She checks her leg, under the table, and then Gaston holds the garter up high and kisses it to prove his expertise.The Duck""s objective - to save himself from the chopping block - was to show his usefulness and not become obsolete.