Top cast:Benedict Cumberbatch,Merab Ninidze,Rachel Brosnahan
Director:Sam Mendes
Genre:Western
Region:South Korea
Year:2014
Storyline:Hammett""s murder mystery novel had previously been filmed twice:The Maltese Falcon (1931), a low-budget, pre-Code film (directed by Roy Del Ruth)-renamed for TV asDangerous Female- with Ricardo Cortez as the gumshoe opposite femme fatale Bebe Daniels; it was faithful to Hammett""s novel, although its pre-censorship status allowed for steamier scenes (a nude bathtub shot, a portrayal of Spade as a womanizing Latin lover, and a clearly homosexual relationship between Casper "Fat Man" Gutman (Dudley Digges) and ""fall guy"" Wilmer (Dwight Frye))Satan Met a Lady (1936), a remake directed by William Dieterle) with Warren William and rising star Bette Davis as the femme fatale, but without the ""black bird"" (a ram""s horn was substituted)Huston was convinced that he could remake the film with a more precise screenplay and better acting than the other two adaptations.Plot SynopsisIn the film""s plot, 20 year-old alcoholic ex-prostitute Anna "Christie" Christofferson (or Gustafson) (24 year-old Greta Garbo), a world-weary and ailing, man-hating Swedish-American, returned home to New York after a long absence (including being raised since the age of 5 on a Minnesota farm by abusive relatives and working in a St." [Note: Three Berlin songs were written for the film, but didn""t make it in the final cut: "Wild About You," "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan," and "You""re the Cause.In one of the film""s most memorable scenes, she remains paralyzed and with a look of quiet fright behind the opened door, where she timidly and shyly views him - for the first time - through he glass.I can""t get myself right.I wanted to look mellow and I look brittle.My face doesn""t compose well - it""s all highlights.How can I dim myself down, Leon? Suggest something.Oh, I""m so bored with this face.I wish I had someone else""s face.Whose face would you have if you had your choice? Oh well, I guess one gets the face one deserves.Her dapper boyfriend/lover, who shares her cynical view of love and a business partnership, is the suave and handsome playboy Count Leon D""Algout (Melvyn Douglas), who responds wittily: "There""s one marvelous advantage to your conversation, Swana.