Top cast:Al Pacino,Robert De Niro,Robert Duvall
Director:Bert Haldane
Genre:Drama
Region:South Africa
Year:2009
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).When dozens of Dementors surged over the devastated castle, Aberforth Dumbledore created a shielding Patronus Charm to repel them.] Two of the five children enter, only son Alonzo "Lon" Jr.(Henry H.Daniels, Jr.), casually humming a bit of the tune of the title song after setting down a load of groceries.(The title song is sung by the whole family in he house.) Then, second-youngest daughter Agnes (child star Joan Carroll) comes in, her bloomers still wet from swimming.BothFrankensteinfilms were produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr.(the head of Universal) and directed by horror master James Whale, at a time when monster films were diminishing.Directed by Brian De Palma, with his typical characteristics - Hitchcockian suspense and tension.With no Academy Awards Oscar nominations.Nominated for one Razzie Award: Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million.The only character that appeared on the TV show, good-guy Jim Phelps, turned out to be the villain in the film.