Top cast:Denzel Washington,Ethan Hawke,Scott Glenn
Director:Ryan Coogler
Genre:Thriller
Region:Greece
Year:2000
Storyline:The classic MGM, coming-of-age children""s film acquired four Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Best Film Editing - Elmo Veron, and Best Screenplay - Marc Connolly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every) with Spencer Tracy taking home his very first Best Actor Oscar (he experienced back-to-back wins when he also won Best Actor the following year forBoys Town (1938)) for his heart-warming performance.Rieekan ordered the start of the evacuation of the Rebel base.Light years away on the Imperial fleet on Darth Vader""s (David Prowse/voice of James Earl Jones) command ship theExecutorleading the way through space with Imperial Star Destroyers and TIE fighters alongside, Imperial Force Admiral Piett (Kenneth Colley) reported to angry and skeptical Admiral Ozzel (Michael Sheard) about a fragment of a signal from a probe droid in the Hoth system, a possible life-reading.[Zira spearheaded the women""s movement when she told her applauding women""s club audience: "A marriage bed is made for two, but every damn morning it""s the woman who has to make it! We have heads as well as hands.A few of the loosely-connected scenes that were woven ogether have become classics:the funny sight-gag of repeatedly pickpocketing a Sheriff of a $5 dollar bill, to make it look like a $15 bill was paidthe famous "Tootsie-Frootsie" Ice Cream/Code Book scene at the racetrackthe Phone Call Impersonation sequencethe two Medical Examination scenesa clever Pantomime (Game of Charades) o indicate a frame-upthe Dinner-Date seduction and Wallpapering to the Wall scenethe destruction of a piano and its transformation into a harpthe climactic Steeplechase race sequenceThis was theonlyMarx Brothers film to receive a competitive Oscar nomination -- Dave Gould""s Best Dance Direction for the song/dance number "All God""s Children Got Rhythm" in he last part of the film.Filmed in journalistic, documentary-style black and white textures with some low-key lighting and chiaroscuro (often provided by a candle or low light source) - beautifully captured by Gregg Toland""s expert cinematography (remarkably un-nominated!), he picture records with astute realism rural America in the 30s.