It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.

Chaplin proceeded to direct every short film in which he appeared for Keystone, approximately one per week, which he remembered as the most exciting time of his career.

After working as assistant director on Resnais's Night and Fog in 1955, Marker made Sunday in Peking, a short documentary " film essay " that would characterize Marker's unique film style for most of his career.

After the events of May 1968, Marker felt a moral obligation to abandon his own personal film career and devote himself to SLON and its activities.

The concert was Montand's first public performance in four years and the film includes film clips from his long career as a singer and actor.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.

At Biograph, Griffith's career in the film industry would change forever.

After the disappointment of a dramatic film career, Day returned to her musical / comedic roots in 1957's The Pajama Game with John Raitt.

Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.

With less time to spend songwriting as she focused on a burgeoning film career, during the early 1980s Parton recorded a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy and Carole Bayer Sager.

" Bowie's career has also been punctuated by various roles in film and theatre productions, earning him some acclaim as an actor in his own right.

* Little Miss Marker ( 1934 )— The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

She used her Miss America scholarship money to study acting at HB Studios in New York City before moving to Hollywood to pursue a film and television career.

Her film career began in earnest in 1937 when she appeared in the films Oh Doctor and Stage Door.

Wallach's film debut was in Elia Kazan's controversial 1956 Baby Doll, and he went on to a prolific career in films, although rarely in a starring role.

While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career.

Coppola's eldest son, Gian-Carlo, was in the early stages of a film production career when he was killed on May 26, 1986 in a speedboat accident.

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

Most of the film took place at night and the filmmakers shot most of the film during the summer when the days were longest and the nights were the shortest.

Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

" Featuring the Tramp and Goddard as endurers of the Great Depression, it took ten and a half months to film.

Chaplin considered the musical accompaniment of a film to be important, and from A Woman of Paris onwards, he took an increasing interest in this area.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

In November 2011, Charles took time off from Coronation Street to film a new series of Red Dwarf, returning to filming on ' Corrie ' in April 2012.

When the production of Richard Kelly's debut film, Donnie Darko, was threatened, Barrymore stepped forward with financing from Flower Films and took the small role of Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher.

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

Again echoing Winchell, Sullivan took on yet another medium in 1933 by writing and starring in the film Mr. Broadway, which has him guiding the audience around New York nightspots to meet entertainers and celebrities.

Filming took place in Michigan and North Carolina in 1986 and the film was released in the United States on March 13, 1987.

He took his cast to the Napa Valley for much of the outdoor shooting, but these scenes were in sharp contrast to those obviously filmed on a Hollywood soundstage, resulting in a disjointed look to the film.

" James Berardinelli also gave the film three stars out of four, saying that " the intelligence and subtlety of The Rainmaker took me by surprise " and that the film " stands above any other filmed Grisham adaptation ".

( See Kuleshov Experiment ) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket.

Louis and Auguste Lumière perfected the Cinématographe, an apparatus that took, printed, and projected film.

The first commercial exhibition of film took place on April 14, 1894 at Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor.

Other film-makers then took up all these ideas, which is the basis of film construction, or " film language ", or " film grammar ", as we know it.

It was only in 1919 that the exodus of talent from the country took place, and fiction film production was reduced to practically nothing.

As the robbers leave the looted train, the film suddenly cuts back to the station, where the telegrapher's little daughter arrives with her father's dinner pail only to find him bound on the floor.

The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

Cuarón's next project found him returning to Mexico with a Spanish-speaking cast to film Y tu mamá también, starring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.

In addition, Raimi needed $ 3 million to finish his movie, but Universal was not willing to give him the money and delayed its release because they were upset that De Laurentiis would not give them the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character so that they could film a sequel to Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Interestingly, the android character Data is transformed into a cyborg in the film too by having organic components integrated into him ( the reverse of the Borg, who were organic beings who had synthetic components made part of them ).

This led to a commission from one of his fellow students, the wealthy H. Barton Wasserman, who offered him $ 1000 to create a film installation in his home.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back, and Cronenberg remarked that Suschitzky's work in that film " was the only one of those movies that actually looked good ", which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers.

Though Herbert's novel Dune seems to describe Harkonnen's suspensor belt as simply enabling him to stand and walk upright rather than actually " fly ," both the 1984 film and the 2000 miniseries feature the Baron utilizing the suspensors to levitate off the ground and float through the air in a flying-like manner.

The producers of a horror film called Ssssss saw Benedict's performance in Hawaii Five-O and promptly cast him as the lead in that movie.

He subsequently appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ), and received critical recognition for his work in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers, with the latter film garnering him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

The film Alpha and Omega, which was his last movie role, was dedicated to him.

In this last section of the story ( book and film ), the reactivated monolith consumes Bowman and modifies him into something more than human.

To convince Floyd, Bowman appears to him as a ghost ( in the film ), and a Bowman-shaped field of dust ( in the book ).

Upon hearing this, King, who had written a glowing review of the first film that helped it become an audience favorite at Cannes, called De Laurentiis and asked him to fund the film.

The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards — for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture.

The company that hired Coppola to edit Tonight for Sure brought him back to re-cut a German film titled Mit Eva fing die Sünde an directed by Fritz Umgelter.

The film introduced George Lucas to him, who became his lifelong friend as well as production assistant in his next film The Rain People in 1969.