Greatest Films of 1. The Bad and the Beautiful (1. D: Vincente Minnelli. A scathing melodrama and dark expose of sordid backstage Hollywood. Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas. An. ambitious, cruel, driven, amoral, egotistical producer Jonathan Shields. Kirk Douglas), begins as a maker of low- budget westerns and horror. His manipulative and ruthless victimization of others is seen. Georgia Lorrison (Lana Turner), award- winning screenwriter. James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) and his faithless, southern belle wife. Overview of The Bad and the Beautiful, 1953, directed by Vincente Minnelli, with Elaine Stewart, Sammy White, Leo G. Carroll, at Turner Classic Movies. Volunteer with a YLC Project. Membership is open to all individuals, and so is volunteering. Our mission is to build leadership through service. Sex symbol Marilyn Monroe went dramatic in 1952's Don't Bother to Knock. Monroe plays Nell Forbes, a beautiful but suicidal young woman, recently released from a. Rosemary (Gloria Grahame), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan). In the. final scene, the three listen - with a phone to their ear - when the. Shields calls from Europe. High Noon (1. 95. Background High Noon (1. Western film ever made - a successful box- office production by Stanley. Kramer and director Fred Zinnemann (who also directed From. Here to Eternity (1. A Man For All Seasons (1. Cunningham) published in. December 1. 94. 7. In fact, the film's story has often been interpreted as a morality. Hollywood blacklisted. Foreman) who faced political persecution. HUAC during the Mc. Carthy era due to actual or imagined connections. Communist Party, and made life- altering decisions to stand their ground. It also has been interpreted as an allegory of the Cold War. US foreign policy during the Korean War. This taut, tightly- scripted. Hadleyville townspeople he had faithfully protected for many years (symbolically. World War II years). Due to the townspeople's cowardice (representing. HUAC), physical inability, self- interest. Fearful but duty- bound, he eventually. Korean War, or. the HUAC itself). Embittered by film's end, he tosses his tin star into the. One of the film posters described the theme of the deserted. Quaker wife (symbolic of US isolationists) in order to stay and. Frank Miller: The story of a man who was too proud to run. Another slogan claimed: . In the film, self- reliant Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) refused the well- meaning assistance of Pat Wheeler's (Ward Bond) men - - . Cameraman Floyd Crosby's. New Deal documentaries is evident in the film's sparseness. This simple, stark, low- budget Western classic, with a total. Academy Awards including Best. Picture (won by Cecil B. De. Mille's circus epic The Greatest Show on Earth. Best Director, and Best Screenplay - it was awarded four awards. Best Song for . The film's theme song was made a. Western singer Frankie Laine. It was remade. as a science- fiction film, writer/director Peter Hyams' Outland (1. Sean Connery, with the adapted plot transferred to interstellar space. It was also remade as a TV movie by Ted Turner's TBS station with Tom Skerritt as the lead character and Michael Madsen as the heavy named Frank Miller. Other High Noon imitations. Three O'Clock High (1. The Baltimore Bullet (1. The Story. The film's credits, accompanied by the . On a blazing. summer morning . The gunslingers ride by the town's church (one of the. Sunday morning church bells are pealing as a signal to worship. They are ominously. Spanish woman who crosses herself, a fireman, and other. Ramirez Saloon. One of the three, Ben Miller (Sheb Woolley). The. riders pass the Justice of the Peace's window (the town's courtroom). Judge Percy. Mettrick (Otto Kruger) is to marry the town's 'ex' marshal, middle- aged. Will Kane (Gary Cooper) . Another clock reads 1. An impatient, surly Pierce, one of the riders. Gang member: Noon train on time? Station master: Yes, sir. They are planning to reunite with their pardoned leader, Ben's brother Frank. The message announces that outlaw Frank. Miller (Ian Mac. Donald), put away in a penitentiary by Kane five years earlier. And three. others are waiting for Miller who is to arrive on the noon train at Hadleyville. Marshal. Kane glances at the clock - it's 1. From his Flores Hotel. Harvey Pell (Lloyd Bridges) witnesses. Mexican saloon owner and businesswoman Helen Ramirez (Katy Jurado). Kane appears to be cowardly: . He has two of the old bunch with him. During their retreat a few miles from town to the freedom of open country. Kane has second thoughts, as the oft- repeated, haunting theme of the film. His inner conflict about leaving and the central. Amy that he's got to go back - due to his fidelity to his Western code of. Because of his fateful decision, their honeymoon will be postponed. Kane: It's no good. I've got to go back, Amy. Amy: Why? Kane: This is crazy. I haven't even got any guns. Amy: Then let's go on. Hurry. Kane: No, that's what I've been thinkin'. They're making me run. I've. never run from anybody before. Amy: I don't understand any of this. Kane: (after looking at his vest watch) Well, I haven't got time to tell ya. Amy: Then don't go back, Will. Kane: I've got to. That's the whole thing. You'd. better get busy, Fred. In his office (it's still 1. Kane's new wife asks. Marshal is no longer his. He insistently explains to her - and the film audience. She begs him not to be a hero, but he. Therefore, he must stay and face. Miller's uncivilized and savage forces sooner rather than later: Kane: I sent a man up five years ago for murder. He was supposed. to hang. But up North, they commuted it to life and now he's free. I don't. know how. Anyway, it looks like he's coming back. Amy: I still don't understand. Kane: .. He was always wild and kind of crazy. He'll probably make trouble. Amy: But that's no concern of yours, not anymore. Kane: I'm the one who sent him up. Amy: Well, that was part of your job. They've got a new. Kane: He won't be here until tomorrow. Seems to me I've got to stay. Anyway. I'm the same man with or without this. Three of his old bunch are waiting. Amy: That's exactly why we ought to go. Kane: They'll just come after us, four of 'em, and we'd be all alone on the. Amy: We've got an hour. Kane: What's an hour?. What's a hundred miles? We'd never be able to keep. Amy. They'd come after us and we'd have to run again, as long. Amy: No we wouldn't, not if they didn't know where to find us. Will. I'm begging you, please let's go. Kane: I can't. Amy: Don't try to be a hero. You don't have to be a hero, not for me. Kane: I'm not trying to be a hero. If you think I like this, you're crazy. And in Hadleyville, he is counting on getting special deputies sworn in. Kane knows that his. Quaker wife and counter to her non- violent religion. Amy defiantly hands him an ultimatum on. Kane: Look Amy, this is my town. I've got friends here. I'll swear. in a bunch of special deputies and with a posse behind me, maybe there won't. Amy: You know there'll be trouble. Kane: Then, it's better to have it here. I'm sorry, honey, I know how you. Amy: Do you? Kane: Of course I do. I know it's against your religion and all. Sure I know. how you feel. Amy: But you're doing it just the same. Oh Will, we were married just a few. We've got our whole lives ahead of us. Doesn't that mean anything. Kane: You know I've only got an hour and I've got lots to do. Stay at the. hotel until it's over. Amy: No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour. I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait. If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train. Kane: (resolutely) I've got to stay. So everything hinges on the mid- day hour. In the suspenseful film, every. Many of the fearful, self- serving and cowardly. Miller shows up. Percy Mettrick, the judge who sentenced Miller and officiated at Kane's. Kane finds him packing his office. American flag, and a miniature scale. Kane do. the same while reminding him of the courtroom threat Miller had delivered. Have you forgotten that I'm the man who passed sentence on. Frank Miller? Although there's . The first story, taken from classical. B. C. Athens, tells of a tyrant who returned with mercenaries. League of Government as the town's citizens looked. In the 5th century B. C., the citizens of Athens, having suffered. However when. he returned some years later, with an army of mercenary, those same citizens. League of Government. And a second story, from personal experience, is set in a Western locale. A similar thing happened about eight years ago in a town called. Indian Falls. I escaped death only through the intercession of a lady of somewhat. Unfortunately, I have no more rings. The marshal exclaims: . I hope to live to be a judge again.? Have you forgotten what he is? Have you. forgotten what he's done to people? Have your forgotten that he's crazy? Don't. you remember when he sat in that chair and said, 'You'll never hang me. I'll. come back. I'll kill you, Will Kane. I swear it, I'll kill you.'At the train station, Amy purchases a ticket for St. Nothing that happens here is.
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