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.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

However, Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C +" rating and wrote, " This spoofy cast of thousands looks a little too much like a crew of bland Hollywood extras.

The public, however, seemed to have little interest in a Chaplin film without Chaplin, and it was a box-office disappointment.

Actors sometimes alternate between theater, television and film or even branch into other occupations within the entertainment industry such as becoming a singer, comedian, producer, or a television host in order to be monetarily diversified, as doing one gig pays comparatively very little.

Marker used very little commentary in this film, but the film's montage structure and preoccupation with memory make it a Marker film.

An R-rated romantic comedy about a couple dealing the ups and downs of a long distance relationship while commuting between New York City and San Francisco, the largely improvised film garnered generally mixed reviews by critics, who summed it as " timelier and a little more honest than most romantic comedies.

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

However, after spending a little over a month in theatres, the film ultimately grossed $ 5, 923, 044 domestically.

According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen The Godfather, there was little reason to see an addition to the original story.

In their day Heimatfilms were of little interest to more scholarly film critics, but in recent years they have been the subject of study in relation to what they say about the culture of West Germany in the years of the Wirtschaftswunder.

This was done by exposing the film one frame at a time, and moving the letters a little bit towards their final position between each exposure.

D. W. Griffith made a small number of the latter type of film in his first two years at Biograph, but had little interest or aptitude for the genre.

The 1952 film Umberto D. showed a poor old man with his little dog, who must beg for alms against his dignity in the loneliness of the new society.

After the film's success, a soundtrack album was produced which was supposed to be made up of music one of the characters had on her walkman when she " disappeared ", although the film itself has little music in it.

M remains a powerful work ; it was remade in 1951 by Joseph Losey, but this version had little impact on audiences, and has become harder to see than the original film.

In 1975 he also appeared in the highly regarded -- but little viewed -- film Night Moves, receiving a BAFTA nomination for lead actor.

HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

Jerry Lewis Cinemas stated that the theater could be operated by as little as a staff of two due to automation and the fact that the franchisor would provide support in booking films and help in other areas of film exhibition.

The film was well-reviewed by critics, but received little promotion, and performed poorly at the box office.

A 1940 film of Busman's Honeymoon or The Haunted Honeymoon ( US title ), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released but the characters and events bore little resemblance to Sayers ' writing.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.

Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.

His script was widely different from the final film, the few parts that remained were Erika's death, Biollante's creation, a psychic girl, and for the most part, the ending.

The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

Based on the Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood, the film stars Mae Clarke as Myra, a chorus girl in World War I London who becomes a prostitute.

In the film, Riefenstahl played a peasant girl who protected a glowing mountain grotto.

Known as " America's Sweetheart ," " Little Mary " and " The girl with the curls ," she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting.

* The 1987 horror film Dolls by director Stuart Gordon features a young girl named Judy, who is gifted with a Punch doll that comes to life and protects her.

The 2004 action-drama film Out of Reach is about a pen pal relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a 13-year-old orphaned girl from Poland.

The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair that she cannot tolerate.

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

For example, he would film a magician and a girl ; the magician would make a gesture and Melies stopped the camera.

When viewing the finished film, it looked like the girl disappeared suddenly after the magician's gesture.

* In El crimen del Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 2002 ), a Mexican film ( script by Vicente Leñero, based on the homonymous novel written in 1875 by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz ) about a sexual relationship between a priest and a girl, father Amaro recites it to his lover during their nocturnal meetings.

As the film closes, the misanthrope has been embraced as the model citizen — someone who takes on pimps, drug dealers, and mobsters to save one little girl.

The characters themselves are also given different personalities, with the film Hitomi changing from a cheerful girl in love to a depressed, suicidal schoolgirl who is suffering from self-induced feelings of loneliness and alienation.

Thalberg paired Browning with Lon Chaney, Sr. for the first time for the film The Wicked Darling ( 1919 ), a melodrama in which Chaney played a thief who forces a poor girl from the slums into a life of crime and possibly prostitution.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

The last two paragraphs of Church's editorial are read by actor Sam Elliot in the 1989 film Prancer, about Jessica Riggs, a little girl who believes the wounded reindeer she is nursing back to health belongs to Santa.

** Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.

* The 1994 film Forrest Gump includes a shot in a school that re-creates Rockwell's " Girl with Black Eye " with young Forrest in place of the girl.

The character of Buffy was conceived by Joss Whedon as a way of subverting the cliché of " the little blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed in every horror film ".

It stars Jean Reno as the titular mob hitman ; Gary Oldman as corrupt DEA agent Stansfield ; a young Natalie Portman, in her feature film debut, as Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl who is taken in by the hitman after her family is murdered ; and Danny Aiello as Tony, the mobster who gives the hitman his assignments.

** Bond girl, the ' love ' interest in a James Bond film