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One Minute to Zero is a 1952 American romantic war film starring Robert Mitchum and Ann Blyth, set during the opening phases of the Korean War, and produced by Howard Hughes as his last film as producer. [4] Victor Young's score for the film includes the first appearance of "When I Fall in Love", as the instrumental titled "Theme from One ...
Mitchum departed from his typical screen persona with his critically acclaimed performance as a mild-mannered schoolmaster in David Lean's epic drama, Ryan's Daughter (1970). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] While the film won two Academy Awards, Mitchum, who was thought to be a contender for a Best Actor nomination, was not nominated. [ 7 ]
In 1985 Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader called it a "masterpiece by Nicholas Ray—perhaps the most melancholy and reflective of his films (1952)." [8] In the 2000s [clarify] Gary Tooze of DVDbeaver also highly praised the film: "This is one of the best westerns—period. Mitchum is at his very best.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes California Conquest: Lew Landers: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Lisa Ferraday: Western: Columbia: Canyon Ambush: Lewis D. Collins ...
The movie opens with the murder of New York City Detective Lieutenant Danial Lombardy, his body discovered in Hong Kong waters.. Three strangers arrive on the same ship at the port of Macao, 30 miles off colonial Hong Kong: Nick Cochran, a cynical, but honest ex-serviceman, Julie Benton, an equally cynical, sultry, and well-traveled night club singer, and Lawrence Trumble, a jovial traveling ...
When Preminger again called "Once more!", Mitchum spun around, faced Preminger, and shouted, "Once more?" He then slapped Preminger's face, hard. The director quickly retreated from the set, demanding Mitchum be fired. But instead, "he was told to go back and finish shooting the picture". [6] The film was released on February 11, 1953.
Douglas in 1969. The following is the filmography of American actor Kirk Douglas (1916–2020). His popular films include Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Vikings (1958), Spartacus (1960), Lonely Are the ...
May 26 – Decision reached in Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson determining that certain provisions of the New York Education Law allowing a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious," was a "restraint on freedom of speech" and thereby a ...