《La ville des mille joies (1927)》Storyline
At a business party on the roof of the Ritz Gotham, attended by Bruce Wayne and Dr.Chase Meridian and other guests - a dining/dancing gala was held to unveil Edward Nygma""s New Improved Box (with "fully-interactive holographic fantasies").Strings are suspended in air played with soaring bows.Discs or wafers resembling objects in space appear and disappear.As the music builds, sparkling bits of fireworks dance and explode in a metamorphosis of light and color.Catching some of the gang redhanded, the Virginian sees to their lynching.However, he villainous leader of the gang, Trampas (Walter Huston), is still free.The film comes to a final climactic showdown in a shoot-out on a dusty western street between Trampas and the Virginian.He doesn""t punish for discipline.He likes to see men crawl.Sometimes, I""d like to push his poison down his own throat.The voyage was long and arduous, but the Bounty finally arrived in Tahiti.Christian was ordered to stay on deck, but Byam was allowed to go ashore, where he was befriended by Hitihiti, the island""s chieftain.Greeted by one of the generals, Shaw feels "like Captain Idiot in Astounding Science comics." His politically-motivated, power-mad mother Mrs.Iselin (37 year old Angela Lansbury, only 3 years older than Laurence Harvey, her son in the film) and step-father Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), an aspiring, right-wing (McCarthy-ish), buffoonish Vice-Presidential candidate make a dramatic entrance - hey are introduced by a shot of an American flag and then a descent o them.