Top cast:Bruce Willis,Alan Rickman,Bonnie Bedelia
Director:Arthur Melbourne Cooper
Genre:Musical
Region:United States
Year:2007
Storyline:[Note: Carol""s last name "..doux" translated means soft or sweet.]With he first line of the film, the elderly woman asked: "Have you fallen asleep?" Carol blankly responded from her dreamy state: "Oh, I""m sorry.His passionate feelings for her quickly turn violent oward her male admirers.Jake remarks that "tough guys" aren""t so tough without their guns:Friends.They""re in a huddle.Big business meeting.By the pool, they sit around and talk.Big deals.They make sure she can hear.Big Man.Get the f--k outta here.Big shot.Get ""em all in a back room, smack ""em around, no more big shot, without his gun.They""re tough guys.They""re all tough guys.During his meditative reverie, Vickie sensually gets up and moves to the edge of the pool, sits down with her feet in he water, and turns her face toward the sun.It was released at the end of the repressive 1950s at a time when the studio system was weakening, the advent of television was threatening, and during a time of the declining influence of the Production Code and its censorship restrictions.[Note: Another similar plotline is found in Hitchcock""sNotorious (1946).There were also many similarities to the Best Picture-winning film from a few years earlier,Casablanca (1942)- an exotic and remote setting, a casino, a dysfunctional or problematic love triangle (between a female, a European and an American), intriguing characters, memorable dialogue, and a backdrop or subplot regarding Nazis, etc." He suspected that Thorin was beginning o lose his mind after being inflicted and corrupted with Smaug""s ""sickness"" and an obsession about finding the Arkenstone:He""s been down there for days.