Top cast:Shirley MacLaine,Olympia Dukakis,Sally Field
Director:John Patton Ford
Genre:Mystery
Region:Turkey
Year:2001
Storyline:Lancaster had earlier played a similar manipulative huckster in the filmThe Rainmaker (1956).The film was very popular and a box-office hit - on a budget of $3 million, it grossed $11.3 million dollars.It was shot in the uncharacteristic and unfashionable aspect ratio of 1.33, in protest to the current prevailing trend for CinemaScope features.The film was nominated for five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Score (Andre Previn)) and won three: Best Actor for Burt Lancaster (his sole Oscar win of four Best Actor nominations), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks), and Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones with her sole Oscar nomination, known for her squeaky-clean role in TV""sThe Partridge Family).As the camera pulls back, it reveals McTeague holding the ring in his office.Old Grannis (Frank Hayes) is seated nearby, performing the functions of best man.BackgroundWarner Bros.""GoodFellas(1990) is director Martin Scorsese""s stylistic masterpiece - a follow-up film to his ownMean Streets (1973), released in the year of Francis Ford Coppola""s third installment of his gangster epic -The Godfather, Part III (1990).SWAT teams and police assembled (Billy had over-orchestrated "Operation Truck Siege") as the truck was opened in the secured area, and found to be empty.Yoda taught: "Yes, a Jedi""s strength flow from the Force.But beware of the dark side.Anger, fear, aggression.The dark side of the Force are they...Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight.If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan""s apprentice" - a reference to Vader.Yoda warned that the dark side wasn""t stronger, only "quicker, easier, more seductive." Yoda added: "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense.Never for attack." Luke sensed something was not right in a nearby underground cave, and Yoda urged Luke to enter its dark side and "domain of evil" - where he found himself face-to-face with Darth Vader! The two combatants ignited their light-sabers and dueled together - and with one sweeping blow, Luke beheaded Vader.