The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 19 on their list of " The Top 50 Cult Films ".

The film later ranked number 17 on Entertainment Weekly's list of " 50 Best High School Movies.

The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997 for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 4 on their list of “ The Top 50 Cult Films .”

In 2000, the film was ranked 29th on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema and it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

A 2011 poll by Time Out magazine ranked it as the third greatest comedy film ever made, behind Airplane!

Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).

The score was ranked by the AFI as the second greatest American film score of all time.

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film # 7 on their list of " The Top 50 Cult Films ".

Entertainment Weekly ranked the film sixth on its 2003 list of " The Top 50 Cult Films ".

In 2008 the film ranked number 199 on Empire magazine's list of " The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time ".

The film was also ranked No. 34 on their list of " The Top 50 Cult Films " and ranked No. 15 on the magazine's " The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since ' 83 " list.

The film ranked number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.

The American Film Institute ranked Taxi Driver as the 52nd greatest American film on their AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies ( 10th Anniversary Edition ) list.

In 2008, the film was ranked by Empire magazine No. 397 of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.

In 2001, the film was ranked No. 93 by the American Film Institute on their 100 Years ... 100 Thrills list, a list of America's most heart-pounding movies.

The film also ranked No. 9 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

The film is ranked 23rd on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list of the top comedy films in American cinema and number 60 on Bravo's " 100 Funniest Movies ".

Rickman was chosen by Empire as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history ( No 34 ) in 1995 and ranked No 59 in Empires " The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time " list in October 1997.

A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time.

Panned by critics, it ranked high among the box office successes of his career and was the second-highest grossing film of 1978.

He is ranked as the highest all time box office star with over $ 3. 639 billion total box office gross, an average of $ 107 million per film.

Expanding to 303 theaters in the United Kingdom, the film ranked first at the box office with $ 1. 7 million.