Top cast:Anna Q. Nilsson,Guy Coombs,J. Barstow Budworth
Director:Philip Martin
Genre:Adventure
Region:Indonesia
Year:2000
Storyline:This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth.And he filmed he final fatal confrontation and shoot-out sequence in the sweltering heat of Death Valley under the very harshest conditions.After digging out, Evelyn pleaded to save Rick: "We""ve got to take him to Shangri-La.It""s our only chance." They trekked there and entered Shangri-La through a cave opening, where at the Pool of Eternal Life, they met Zi Yuan - revealed to be Lin""s over 2,000 year old, now-immortal mother.Its screenplay was written by Jo Swerling, a Ukrainian-born Hollywood screenwriter known for previous hits includingThe Westerner (1940), the remakeBlood and Sand (1941),The Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Hitchcock""sLifeboat (1944).