Country: USA
Year: 1953
Duration: 102'


1946. Steve Martin, a former Marine engineer, arrives in a small town in Louisiana to fulfill his dream: build a new type of platform to extract oil from the sea bed. Steve and his partner Johnny obtain financing from a big oil company and suddenly find themselves rich. The two men fall in love with the daughters of a shrimp fisherman. But the town opposes their project, which would put an end to fishing in those waters.

Biography

film director

Anthony Mann

Anthony Mann (San Diego, CA, USA, 1906 - Berlin, Germany, 1967), born Emil Anton Bundmann, began his career, after having been an actor and theater manager, in 1938 as a collaborator of David O. Selznick. After making a low-budget noir and crime director, he became popular in the 1950s with some westerns starring James Stewart. He then dedicated himself to other genres with films The Glenn Miller Story (1954). In the 1960s he worked in Europe, creating blockbusters such as El Cid (id., 1961) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).

FILMOGRAFIA

The Great Flamarion (La fine della signora Wallace, 1945), T-Men (T-Men contro i fuorilegge, 1947), Raw Deal (Schiavo della furia, 1948), He Walked by Night (Egli camminava nella notte, 1948), The Furies (Le furie, 1950), Devil’s Doorway (Il passo del diavolo, 1950), Winchester ‘73 (1950), The Tall Target (Bersaglio eccellente, 1951), Bend of the River (Là dove scende il fiume, 1952), Thunder Bay (La baia del tuono, 1953), The Naked Spur (Lo sperone nudo, 1953), The Far Country (Terra lontana, 1955), The Man from Laramie (L’uomo di Laramie, 1955), The Last Frontier (L’ultima frontiera, 1955), Man of the West (Dove la terra scotta, 1958), God’s Little Acre (Il piccolo campo, 1958), Cimarron (1960), The Heroes of Telemark (Gli eroi di Telemark, 1965), Dandy in Aspic (Sull’orlo della paura, 1968).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Anthony Mann.
Plot: George W. George, George F. Slavin, John Michael Hayes.
Screenplay: John Michael Hayes, Gil Doud.
Director of photography: William Daniels.
Art director: Alexander Golitzen, Richard H. Riedel.
Costume designer: Rosemary Odell.
Editor: Russell Schoengarth.
Music: Frank Skinner.
Cast and characters: James Stewart (Steve Martin), Joanne Dru (Stella Rigaud), Gilbert Roland (Teche Bossier), Dan Duryea (Johnny Gambi), Jay C. Flippen (Kermit MacDonald), Marcia Henderson (Francesca Rigaud).
Production company: Aaron Rosenberg per Universal.
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