This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s as a reaction to the Watergate scandal, but proved incapable of articulating how the film related to the scandal.

The Others ( 2001 ) proved to be a successful example of psychological horror film.

Much later, after the film was released and his experiences during its production proved unhappy, Reynolds complained to Lemmon and described Avildsen as an " asshole ", whereby Lemmon replied, " I guess you could say that ".

Paramount was the first successful nation-wide distributor ; until this time, films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers.

Irving Thalberg of M-G-M invited Flaherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas ( 1928 ) in collaboration with W. S. Van Dyke, but their talents proved an uncomfortable fit, and Flaherty resigned from the production.

Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with F. W. Murnau on another South Seas picture, Tabu, but this combination proved even more volatile, and while Flaherty did contribute significantly to the story, the finished film is essentially Murnau's.

Road film Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ) starring Geena Davis as Thelma, and Susan Sarandon as Louise, proved to be one of Scott's biggest critical successes, helping revive the director's reputation and receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.

Scott's film Gladiator ( 2000 ) proved to be one of his biggest commercial successes to date.

Orbison was pleased with the film, although it proved to be a critical and box office flop.

The success of the film helped establish Burton as a profitable director, and it also proved to be a huge influence on future superhero films, which eschewed the bright, all-American heroism of Richard Donner's Superman for a grimmer, more realistic look and characters with more psychological depth.

During 1936, the studio's film The Story of Louis Pasteur proved a box office success and Paul Muni, the film's star, won the Oscar for Best Actor in March 1937.

Lerner and Loewe adapted the film for a 1973 stage musical that proved to be unsuccessful.

The film proved a surprising success upon its release and became Eastwood's most commercially successful film at the time.

The film — a period piece set in Europe — proved to be a box office failure.

1936 proved to be a big year for Lombard with her casting in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey alongside ex-husband William Powell who refused to do the film unless Lombard was cast opposite him.

The film gave Lombard's career a boost and she followed its success with what proved to be her last film, and one of her most successful, To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ).

" Channel 4 said, " Weir's film has its fair share of cute moments as the opposites slowly begin to attract, but this is largely over rated stuff, which proved curiously popular with critics on its release.

In this case also the design of the thermometer can be modified to reduce the helium film flow.

The film has an adhesive on the back which permits it to be stripped onto the acrylic panels forming the sign, and also to be stripped off for replacement by new copy as required.

Thus the film can be applied to back-lighted translucent plastics faces ; ;

Extruded expandable styrene film or sheet -- claimed to be competitive price-wise with paper -- also showed much potential, particularly for packaging.

Furthermore, the thin film dynodes appear to have a natural diameter limitation wherever a mesh support cannot be tolerated.

If, in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends, you interrupt the sequence to paste in a few frames of the child's grandmother watching this event, you have begun to be an artist in film ; ;

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

All the sins of ancient Rome are said to be collected into this three-hour film.

The most recent film catalogue, available at each library, lists 110 titles presently in the collection, any of which may be borrowed without charge.

The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the American edition of the book ( which Burgess considered to be " badly flawed ").

Others, such as 1980 Hungarian film, Kojak Budapesten ( not to be confused with the 1986 comedy by the same name ) create their own scenarios involving Christie's criminal skill.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

The film will be released in 2013.

The American influence through film has led to the localised adoption of terms such as bronco for the native brumby meaning wild horse, and cowboy for the native drover and stockman for a cattle or sheep herder, though such words are still overtly felt to be " Americanisms ".

Skyjacked ( film ) is a 1972 film about a crazed Vietnam war veteran hijacking a Boeing 747 and demanding to be taken to Russia by the captain, Charlton Heston.

The structure " Fiddler's Green " from George A. Romero's 2005 film Land of the Dead might be an arcology.

* The city in the 1976 film Logan's Run is entirely self-contained for all resources, except power, which is said to be supplied by water moved by the tides.

* overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic ( e. g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars ).

However, the viscosity of acrylic can successfully be reduced by using suitable extenders that maintain the integrity of the paint film.

The actor had a day to approve it or, as he was told, there would be no ad campaign for the film.

It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.