Top cast:Sydney Booth,Herbert Prior,James Gordon
Director:Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:United Kingdom
Year:2007
Storyline:]Huston""s work was honored with four Academy Award nominations but no Oscars: Best Supporting Actor (Sam Jaffe), Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best B/W Cinematography (Harold Rosson, who lost toThe Third Man (1949))."In the film, the case centered around the accused - a dumb blonde (Holliday), who shot (but didn""t fatally wound) her adulterous husband (Ewell) caught with a mistress.Teasdale: Oh, your Excellency.We""ve been expecting you.As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia.] In the nearby Hidey Lake Community Church, two men posing as DWP electrical workers in orange uniforms killed the church""s pastor, and then radioed that the "clubhouse" was open - it would serve as a base of operations for the fanatical Colonel Stuart.The opportunistic mother was infatuated with Johnny and schemed to escape her lonely life by running off with him to New Orleans and Mardi Gras, or Rio - anywhere but the South (and enroute dropping Billy off with relatives in Cumberland).