Top cast:Dean-Charles Chapman,George MacKay,Daniel Mays
Director:Brian Helgeland
Genre:History
Region:Turkey
Year:2007
Storyline:Exquisitely-costumed guests stroll on the lawn and inside the vast mansion, with a massive hallway and wide, graceful, double-curved staircase." Four separate ruby jewels glowed on the island, mirroring their positioning and configuration in the diary...How am I going to make a report about this? If I say exactly what""s happened, they""ll say I""m mad at headquarters." They are cheerful and joking (with a sarcastic Herbert Hoover truism) despite their surroundings:Godfrey Smith/Parke: (dryly) Mike, I wouldn""t worry.Among the unusual characters are:a dim-witted, slithery Southern playboy/gigolo from Kentucky (Vincent Price)a cynical, mannered and prickly society columnist (Clifton Webb in his first screen appearance since the silent era); also an effete intellectual and an aloof bachelor (with many gay affects)an aging, well-heeled, matronly socialite (Judith Anderson) who lusts after the gigoloa beautiful career woman and ad designer (Gene Tierney), seen in her own apartment""s fireplace portrait - the gorgeous heroine who is presumed dead for about half of the filman unconventional, puzzle-playing, chain-smoking, dead-pan-speaking detective (Dana Andrews)Trailers for the compelling film promised: "Never has a woman been so beautiful, so exotic, so dangerous to know!", and Gene Tierney (in her signature film role as Laura) delivered with exquisite elegance and sublime, breathtaking beauty the role of the untouchable ""work of art"".