Top cast:Francisco I. Madero,José María Pino Suárez
Director:Scott Waugh
Genre:Drama
Region:Iran
Year:2022
Storyline:Over a crude, slowly-spinning globe and a zoom-in shot oward Western Europe, a doom-laden, ominous voice-over, similar o theMarch of Timenewsreel narrations [by Westbrook Van Voorhis], explains the turbulent Nazi takeover of Europe, the coming of World War II, and the frenetic stream of political refugees (superimposed over the globe) from persecution out of Hitler""s besieged Europe o Vichy France and North Africa:With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully or desperately toward the freedom of the Americas.Some of them are phonies.And I know which ones.How do I know? Because my little man tells me.Garlopis: What little man?Keyes: The little man in here.Every time one of these phonies comes along, it ties knots in my stomach.I can""t eat.One of the "knots" in his stomach involves Garlopis"" "crooked" claim.Keyes determines that the insurance claim for the truck is fraudulently phony - Garlopis had soaked a pile of shavings with kerosene and lit them in his truck.A telephone switchboard operator receives a call from Room 253/9 of the hotel - the word is quickly spread from the manager o hotel employees that there has been a robbery in royal suite 253-5-7-9 (four rooms made into an ultra-luxurious, expensive suite only affordable by the wealthy).It all pointed to a cop, or ex-cop -- Travis, who was making illegal profits, and laundering the money through his desert housing project/development.As with many Hitchcock films, it was not lauded by its contemporary critics, and received only two Academy Award nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains) and Best Original Screenplay (Ben Hecht).