Directed by:
Richard SchickelCast:
Clint Eastwood, Carroll Baker, Warren Beatty, Andrew Bergman, Busby Berkeley, James Cagney, George Clooney, Stanley Donen, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock (more)Plots(1)
The power and the stories. The trends and trendsetters. The mirror that reflects our life and times. It's Rick sticking his neck out for nobody. Superman rescuing Lois Lane. Bette Davis pumping lead into the man she loves. George Clooney masterminding a Vegas heist. Harry Potter wielding his powers. You must remember these. Clint Eastwood narrates Richard Schickel's perceptive 5-episode, 85th-anniversary salute to the studio that gained a four-footed hold with an unlikely star (Rin Tin Tin), championed tough guys and dames who gave the Depression and the Nazis the raspberry, countered the box-office onslaught of TV and emerged as a 21st-century giant. Art, business, stars, moneymen, America - it's an enthralling tale. And it's all here. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Clint Eastwood
USA
Best movies:
Gran Torino (2008)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Carroll Baker
USA
Best movies:
The Game (1997)
The Big Country (1958)
Giant (1956)
Warren Beatty
USA
Best movies:
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Andrew Bergman
USA
Busby Berkeley
USA
Best movies:
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
James Cagney
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
One, Two, Three (1961)
White Heat (1949)
George Clooney
USA
Best movies:
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
8 (2012) (theatrical recording)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Stanley Donen
USA
Best movies:
Charade (1963)
Howard Hawks
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
Alfred Hitchcock
UK
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
North by Northwest (1959)
Kim Hunter
USA
Best movies:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Elia Kazan
Best movies:
City for Conquest (1940)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Margot Kidder
Canada
Best movies:
Maverick (1994)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
Superman (1978)
Jack Nicholson
USA
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Shining (1980)
The Departed (2006)
Pat O'Brien
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Arthur Penn
USA
Best movies:
Naked in New York (1993)
Frank R. Pierson
USA
Ronald Reagan
USA
Best movies:
Storm Warning (1951)
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Robert Redford
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Out of Africa (1985)
Edward G. Robinson
Romania
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Ten Commandments (1956)