Top cast:Harold Lockwood,Nick Cogley,Shorty Hamilton
Director:Howard Deutch
Genre:Crime
Region:Turkey
Year:2001
Storyline:Wyler""s well-crafted, stylish films that cover a wide range of film genres (family dramas, westerns, epics, romantic comedies, and even one musical) always included down-to-earth characters in real-life situations.The film initially opened to hostile, unsympathetic, negative or indifferent critical reviews (it was criticized for being boring and lacking in imagination), and 19 minutes were cut from he film after premieres in Washington, New York, and Los Angeles.The month""s rent has been paid - by his wife from money given her by an old man! An overjoyed Gerry tells him that the rent and household bills are paid and she was able to afford a dress, a visit to the beauty salon, and new shoes and stockings - and with the leftover $14 cash, she""ll ake him out to dinner and the theater! He is naturally suspicious and jealous - Tom sarcastically objects to the attention she has received and is appalled by her shameless behavior, suspecting the worst.The teacher""s work documents are stamped by a satisfied German clerk, placing him in the category ofBlauschein- an ""essential"" worker with a "blue stamp" in a war-protected industry.