Top cast:Harold Lockwood,Helen Case,Joe King
Director:Yimou Zhang
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Spain
Year:2009
Storyline:This was Billy Wilder""s fourth directorial effort, afterThe Major and the Minor (1942),Five Graves to Cairo (1943), and he classic film noirDouble Indemnity (1944).No woman is able to raise growing youngsters alone.The Lord meant that job for two.Willa: (emphatically) Icey, I just don""t want a husband.Ominously in the dark, with a slanted camera angle, a train approaches the small town - carrying the newly-freed Powell who has been released from prison and is in malevolent pursuit of he money, Harper""s children - and Harper""s widow.It does to God.Why, only last week in Texas, he dropped a whole church roof on the heads of 34 of his worshippers just as they were groveling for him.[The character of Waldo Lydecker was reportedly based uponNew Yorkertheatre critic, columnist and broadcaster Alexander Woolcott.