Top cast:Charles Inslee,Harry Solter,Gene Gauntier
Director:Jon Watts
Genre:Horror
Region:Argentina
Year:2018
Storyline:Director Mann brought some of the characteristics of his previous film-noirs to this modernized western, borrowed from his own gritty, low-budget classics such asT-Men (1947)andRaw Deal (1948).The Arrival in Moscow - With the Empress:The domineering Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (Louise Dresser) was enthroned on a gaudy imperial platform before a giant backdrop of a twisted, ghoulish, two-headed, avenging winged double-eagle statue.Charley, who works as Johnny Friendly""s smart and crooked lawyer and as chief lieutenant, is flanked by two of Friendly""s goons.He urges his friends to take a ride down the river before a man-made lake will forever flood it:...because they""re buildin"" a dam across the Cahulawassee River.They""re gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby, that""s why.Dammit, hey""re drownin"" the river...Just about the last wild, untamed, unpolluted, unf--ked up river in the South.Don""t you understand what I""m sayin""?...They""re gonna stop the river up.There ain""t gonna be no more river.There""s just gonna be a big, dead lake...You just push a little more power into Atlanta, a little more air-conditioners for your smug little suburb, and you know what""s gonna happen? We""re gonna rape this whole god-damned landscape.In fact, he ponders with surprise: "I wonder why he left me all that money.I don""t need it!" [Note: The groans from a Depression-Era audience must have been audible.]During lunch, Cedar expresses Cobb""s function as a ""buffer"" for Deeds: "Rich people need someone to keep the crowds away.