Also Known As: Howard Hawks' The Big Sky
Company: RKO Radio Pictures / Winchester Pictures Corporation
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Plot: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.
Cast and Character: Kirk Douglas as Jim Deakins / Dewey Martin as Boone Caudill / Elizabeth Threatt as Teal Eye / Arthur Hunnicutt as Zeb Calloway / Buddy Baer as Romaine / Steven Geray as 'Frenchy' Jourdonnais / Henri Letondal as La Badie / Hank Worden as Poordevil / Jim Davis as Streak
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians....
Directors: Howard Hawks
Genres: Drama / Western
Location: Snake River, Wyoming, USA
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0044419.jpg
Rating: 7.1
Release Date: 19 August 1952 (USA)
Runtime: 140 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: She was a hostage - beautiful, silent, smoldering with hate...her presence lighted the torch of desire...and shattering conflict! (original poster)
Title: The Big Sky
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044419/
Votes: 2,161
Writers: Dudley Nichols / A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Year: 1952
The Big Sky got rated 7.1.
About the movie: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.
Big Night got rated 7.2.
About the movie: Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution - he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night...
Ben-Hur got rated 8.1.
About the movie: Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them. During the welcome parade a roof tile falls down from Judah's house and injures the governor. Although Messala knows they are not guilty, he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge.
Barton Fink got rated 7.7.
About the movie: In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
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