Top cast:Elmer Booth,Mary Pickford,Charles Hill Mailes
Director:Kevin Smith
Genre:Musical
Region:Argentina
Year:2004
Storyline:(Co-stars Winger and Lithgow competed against MacLaine and Nicholson.)The other nominations included Best Actress (Debra Winger), Best Supporting Actor (John Lithgow), Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score.The intelligent, exciting, theatrical, but moody, downbeat crime drama-thriller (and melodramatic film noir) was adapted from Maxwell Anderson""s 1939 Broadway stage play by director John Huston and Richard Brooks.We have footprints, tire tracks.We have bullets strewn on the ground which bear his fingerprints.A broken bourbon bottle, likewise with fingerprints.And most of all, we have a beautiful young woman and her lover lying dead in each other""s arms.They had sinned.But was their crime so great as to merit a death sentence?...A revolver holds six bullets, not eight.I submit that this was not a hot-blooded crime of passion.That, at least, could be understood if not condoned.No - this was revenge of a much more brutal and cold blooded nature.Consider this.Four bullets per victim.Not six shots fired but eight.That means that he fired the gun empty and then stopped to reload so that he could shoot each of them again.Batman discovered that the Joker had disguised the hostages as his own men ("The clowns are the hostages.BackgroundBen-Hur(1959) is MGM""s three and a half hour, wide-screen epic Technicolor blockbuster - a Biblical tale, subtitledA Tale of the Christ.