Top cast:Mary Miles Minter,Ethel Elder
Director:Alfred Rolfe
Genre:Music
Region:Macau
Year:2016
Storyline:..I want a new life, all over from the very beginning.A perfectly glorious, free adventurous life.Following his retirement in the "half-baked" midwestern town of Zenith, his vain, selfish and shallow wife finally states that she has finished putting in two decades of social-climbing service (and pampered society life) to maintain a home and family for her heavily career-focused, down-to-earth industrialist husband.The main point of Keaton""s imaginative narrative in his celebrated classic was about dreams and reality (portrayed in parallel narratives of the cinematic world and the real world).The Production Code of the time wouldn""t have condoned he exposition of explicit details of portions of the depraved plot anyway (the references to drug use, Carmen""s nymphomania, the pornography racket, and the homosexual relationship between Lundgren and Geiger).Friends had given me several addresses in Ramsdale where lodgings were available for the summer.In the host""s white-picket fenced home in Ramsdale, Humbert is escorted on a guided tour of the suburban house by a matronly-looking, boorish, wealthy widow Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters).There are other nightmarish flashbacks of Joe and his girlfriend Annie.In a brutal image, they are pulled from making out in their car by enviously-jealous Texas males.An angry young Joe breaks a bathroom mirror.He finds himself back in his own flop-house hotel room, sitting in the bathtub and watching a TV show, where the host emphasizes he existential predicament that he faces: "Isn""t this really a case of conning a lot of lonely people?" Joe walks into the netherworld of New York""s Times Square, a place of desperation, futility, dashed hopes and false dreams.