Top cast:Carey Mulligan,Bo Burnham,Alison Brie
Director:Frederick A. Thomson
Genre:History
Region:Hungary
Year:2013
Storyline:"When hese Pharisees pray they demand that all action cease." A craftsman, a youth with a heavy bundle, and a toothless old Jew munching on an apple stop everything they are doing as one of the despotic Pharisees in their midst kisses the hem of his cloak and loudly prays upward, advertising his moral superiority: "Oh Lord, I thank thee that I am better than other men.In the form of an office memo, he explains to the firm""s Claims Manager Barton Keyes (Edward G.Robinson) how he committed the "perfect" crime hat wastooperfect:Office memorandum.""Walter Neff to Barton Keyes, Claims Manager, Los Angeles, July 16, 1938.Dear Keyes: I suppose you""ll call this a confession when you hear it.Well, I don""t like he word ""confession."" I just want to set you right about something you couldn""t see because it was smack up against your nose.[Note: Lancaster previously won Best Actor for his role inElmer Gantry (1960).] Its box-office revenue (domestic) was only $12.73 million (against a budget of $6.2 million), making it the lowest-earning film of the five Best Picture nominees.The most successful film of the year was Paramount""s action-adventureRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981).Plot SynopsisThe Opening Titles Sequence:The romantic crime drama opened with a closeup of fresh lemons being sliced into quarters by a young and pretty woman.After the movie ended [in the conclusion of the film, Clift""s rich second girlfriend Elizabeth Taylor visited him in jail for the final time, before his scheduled execution for the death of his poorer girlfriend], Robin also went upstairs, and stood topless before the bathroom mirror in her bikini panties, where she blamed herself for hurting Jake""s feelings: "Jake, I""m sorry.