Top cast:Marion Leonard,Dell Henderson,W. Chrystie Miller
Director:Theodore Melfi
Genre:Drama
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2024
Storyline:" In a montage, she began her day""s work:assembled sales materials at the front entrancestripped down to her underwear to use a squeegee o wash glass patio doors leading to the poolscrubbed a kitchen countertopdusted an out-of-date ceiling fan while on a step-ladder, causing her to coughvacuumed the carpeted floor in the orange-painted living roomHer mantra persisted as she applied lipstick to herself, now back in her formal suit, before her first open house clients arrived to preview the home.(Off-screen, he sets his rival""s business on fire.) Voices cry alarm: "Silva." The Sicilian races toward the fire engulfing the gin building with a water hose.Loaded wagons are driven out, but the fire is too far gone and the roof begins to collapse.Black field hands take an odd pleasure in watching the flames rather than fighting the fire.Vacarro comes out of the smoking, burning inferno, salvaging and clutching a small, kerosene can in his arms.The President then authorized Ryan to take a trip to Colombia to establish the connection - and then seize the funds: "So go down there and establish it.]Plot SynopsisAs the film opens, a struggling, sassy newspaper columnist Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is threatened with being fired (along with many others who are considered "deadwood" after a change in the paper""s ownership) by her new managing editor Henry Connell (James Gleason) because her writing has too much "lavendar and old lace" and lacks "fireworks.]The gangster mob boss/crime lord Mike Lagana (Alexander Scourby) [his silk pajamas are monogrammed with ML], resting in his well-furnished, luxurious bedroom, is wakened by one of his gang members, male attendant George Rose (Chris Alcaide) (wearing a white erry-cloth robe) to take the private line phone call from "Tom Duncan""s widow.