Top cast:Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson,Vedah Bertram
Director:João Tavares
Genre:Drama
Region:Brazil
Year:2020
Storyline:At least three other films also used Atlantic City as a backdrop:The King of Marvin Gardens (1972),The Color of Money (1986)andThe Pick-up Artist (1987), as well as the popular, recent TV seriesBoardwalk Empire (2010-2014)..." New York""s Cardinal Spellman declared the film "evil in concept...certain to exert an immoral and corrupting influence on those who see it."The stark, controversial, black and white Southern drama was so viciously denounced by the Legion of Decency upon its release with a "C" (or condemned) rating that many theaters were forced to cancel heir showings, but it still did moderately well at the box office despite the uproar.It pulls no punches, but handles its subject sincerely and straightforwardly.It is not a preachment, but the most stirring kind of dramatic entertainment.Miklos Rozsa""s eerie score featured thefirstuse in a feature film of electronic music - from an instrument called athereminthat produced oscillating, wailing, other-worldly sounds to express the drinker""s distorted perceptions of reality during the nightmarish sequences.]The film is composed of four episodes.Three of the major sections are subtitled:The Dawn of ManA primeval ape man, in the year 4,000,000 BC, makes a breakthrough - becoming endowed with intelligence after experiencing a mysterious black monolith.